--- title: The Indus people wrote short signs on little stone seals with animal… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first ki… · tree and pragmatics description: The Indus people wrote short signs on little stone seals with animals on them, but nobody can read their writing yet, like a locked diary with no key. Who acts: Indus people, nobody, people. 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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:3 # text = The Indus people wrote short signs on little stone seals with animals on them, but nobody can read their writing yet, like a locked diary with no key. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 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 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 yet yet ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 diary diary NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | the Indus people | short signs | | little stone seals with animals on animals | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Theme on seal=Destination | | 2 | **read** | can | nobody | people's writing | | | yet | like a locked diary with no key | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic | | 3 | **lock** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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