Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 1

They were planned like a modern town: straight streets in a grid, bricks all the same size, and houses with bathrooms and toilets joined to covered drains.

What happens: plan, join, cover · To what, where: cities, bathrooms

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: 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planned	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 planned	aux:pass
3	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 town	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 town	amod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planned	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 streets	punct
9	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 streets	amod
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 town	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 grid	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grid	det
13	grid	grid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streets	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bricks	punct
15	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 streets	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 size	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 size	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 size	amod
19	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streets	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 houses	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 houses	cc
22	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 streets	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 bathrooms	case
24	bathrooms	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 houses	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 toilets	cc
26	toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bathrooms	conj
27	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bathrooms	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 drains	case
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 drains	amod
30	drains	drain	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 joined	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 planned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plan	past · passive	cities = city	like a modern town	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	join	participle	bathrooms and toilets not said here	to covered drains	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to drain=Co-Patient
3	cover	participle			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson:1.

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 ×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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