Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 11

People in Mexico made wheeled toy animals, but with no big animals to pull carts and steep land and lakes, they used canoes, carriers and roads instead.

Who acts: People, carts · What happens: make, wheel, pull, use · To what, where: wheeled toy animals, carts, canoes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (People, carts), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Mexico	case
3	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 animals	amod
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animals	compound
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 used	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 animals	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 animals	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animals	amod
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 used	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pull	mark
15	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 animals	acl
16	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pull	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 land	cc
18	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 land	amod
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carts	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lakes	cc
21	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 land	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 animals	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 used	nsubj
24	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
25	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 used	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 carriers	punct
27	carriers	carrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 canoes	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 roads	cc
29	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 canoes	conj
30	instead	instead	ADV	_	24 used	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	People in Mexico	wheeled toy animals		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Product
2	wheel	participle				vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pull	to-infinitive	carts = cart not said here	carts and steep land and lakes		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
4	use	past	carts = cart	canoes and carriers and roads	with no big animals; instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient

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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:11.

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. 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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