--- title: The Indus people used seals with short inscriptions and animal pictu… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first ki… · tree and pragmatics description: The Indus people used seals with short inscriptions and animal pictures, but nobody has yet worked out their writing. Who acts: Indus people, nobody, people. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Ancient India: the Indus cities and th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/) / 10 # Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 10 The Indus people used seals with short inscriptions and animal pictures, but nobody has yet worked out their writing. **Who acts:** Indus people, nobody, people · **What happens:** use, work out, write · **To what, where:** seals, writing This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indus people, nobody, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson:10 # text = The Indus people used seals with short inscriptions and animal pictures, but nobody has yet worked out their writing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Indus Indus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 5 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 inscriptions inscription NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 yet yet ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past | the Indus people | seals | | | | with short inscriptions and animal pictures | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Patient | | 2 | **work out** | present · perfect | nobody | people's writing | | | yet | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic | | 3 | **write** | | people | | | | | | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson:10`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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