--- title: Think of writing one hundred and five: without a zero, how would you… — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers · tree and pragmatics description: Think of writing one hundred and five: without a zero, how would you tell 105 from 15? Who acts: you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/5/) [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: Ashoka, zero and our nu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/) / 5 # Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 5 Think of writing one hundred and five: without a zero, how would you tell 105 from 15? **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** think, write, tell · **To what, where:** one hundred, 105, 15 · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you), 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:5 # text = Think of writing one hundred and five: without a zero, how would you tell 105 from 15? # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 3 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 zero zero NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 17 105 105 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **write** | gerund | you *not said here* | one hundred | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | you | 105 | | 15 | | without a zero | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 105=Recipient | 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:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.lesson:5`. **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. **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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