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title: Ashoka's lion pillar is today a national emblem of India. — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: Ashoka's lion pillar is today a national emblem of India. Who acts: lion pillar. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 18

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Ashoka's lion pillar is today a national emblem of India.

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**Who acts:** lion pillar · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** national emblem

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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 (lion pillar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.lesson:18
# text = Ashoka's lion pillar is today a national emblem of India.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.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): no change
1	Ashoka	Ashoka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	emblem	emblem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | Ashoka's lion pillar | a national emblem |  |  | today | of India | tree rules |

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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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**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): no change. **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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