Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 1

They often quarrelled, like neighbouring schools with their own rules and uniforms, but they shared a language, the same gods and the Olympic Games, and joined together against outside enemies.

Who acts: Greeks · What happens: quarrel, neighbour, share, join, rule · To what, where: language

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» 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 (Greeks), 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 quarrelled	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 quarrelled	advmod
3	quarrelled	quarrel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quarrelled	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 schools	case
6	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 schools	amod
7	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 quarrelled	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 rules	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 rules	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rules	amod
11	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 schools	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 uniforms	cc
13	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rules	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shared	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 shared	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shared	nsubj
17	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quarrelled	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 language	det
19	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shared	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shared	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gods	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gods	amod
23	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shared	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Games	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Games	det
26	Olympic	Olympic	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Games	compound
27	Games	game	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 gods	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 joined	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 joined	cc
30	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shared	conj
31	together	together	ADV	_	30 joined	advmod
32	against	against	ADP	_	34 enemies	case
33	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 enemies	amod
34	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 joined	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quarrelled	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quarrel	past	Greeks = greek		like neighbouring schools with Greeks's own rules and uniforms; often property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	neighbour	gerund				tree rules
3	share	past	Greeks = greek	a language		tree rules
4	join	past	Greeks = greek not said here		against outside enemies; together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	rule		Greeks = greek			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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