The Maya, sentence 17
The Maya and Aztecs made a bitter, frothy chocolate drink from cacao beans, with no sugar and sometimes with chilli, and cacao beans were even used as money.
Who acts: Maya · What happens: make, use · To what, where: bitter frothy chocolate drink, cacao beans
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Maya» 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 (Maya), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Maya | det |
| 2 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Aztecs | cc |
| 4 | Aztecs | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Maya | conj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drink | det |
| 7 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drink | punct |
| 9 | frothy | frothy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | amod |
| 10 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drink | compound |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 beans | case |
| 13 | cacao | cacao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beans | compound |
| 14 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sugar | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sugar | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 sugar | det |
| 18 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chilli | cc |
| 20 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 chilli | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 chilli | case |
| 22 | chilli | chilli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sugar | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 used | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 used | cc |
| 25 | cacao | cacao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beans | compound |
| 26 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 used | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 used | aux:pass |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 used | advmod |
| 29 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 made | conj |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 money | case |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 used | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Maya and Aztecs | a bitter frothy chocolate drink | cacao beans | with no sugar and chilli | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent drink=Product from bean=Material | ||
| 2 | use | past · passive | cacao beans | as money | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as money=Attribute |
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, 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:018-the-maya.lesson:17.
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 ×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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