Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 2

The two most famous were Athens, a city of traders, sailors, thinkers and artists, and Sparta, a city of soldiers where boys began training at seven.

Who acts: two famous, boys · What happens: be, begin, train · To what, where: Athens, seven

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 (two famous, boys), 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	4 famous	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 famous	nummod
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 famous	advmod
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Athens	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Athens	cop
6	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 city	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Athens	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 traders	case
11	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 city	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sailors	punct
13	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 traders	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thinkers	punct
15	thinkers	thinker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 traders	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 artists	cc
17	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 traders	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Sparta	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Sparta	cc
20	Sparta	Sparta	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Athens	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 city	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 city	det
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Sparta	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 soldiers	case
25	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 city	nmod
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 began	advmod
27	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 city	acl:relcl
29	training	train	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 began	xcomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 seven	case
31	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 training	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Athens	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the two famous	Athens		tree rules
2	begin	past	boys			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	train	gerund	boys not said here		seven	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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:2.

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, R7-rel-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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