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title: The Indus cities had straight streets in a grid and houses of baked… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indus cities had straight streets in a grid and houses of baked bricks all of the same size. Who acts: Indus cities. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 7

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The Indus cities had straight streets in a grid and houses of baked bricks all of the same size.

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**Who acts:** Indus cities · **What happens:** have, bake · **To what, where:** straight streets, grid

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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 cities), 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:7
# text = The Indus cities had straight streets in a grid and houses of baked bricks all of the same size.
# 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): 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	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Indus cities | straight streets and houses of baked bricks |  | a grid |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Patient |
| 2 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:7`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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