Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 5
Greece is full of mountains and islands, so the Greeks lived in many separate city-states rather than one country.
Who acts: Greece, Greeks · What happens: be, live · To what, where: many separate city states
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 (Greece, 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 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 islands | cc |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mountains | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Greeks | det |
| 11 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 states | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 states | amod |
| 15 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 states | amod |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 states | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 states | punct |
| 18 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | obl |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 22 country | cc |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 rather | fixed |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 country | nummod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 states | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Greece | of mountains and islands; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the Greeks | many separate city states rather one country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location |
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:5.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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