Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 8
The Minotaur is a myth, but bull-leaping was a real sport or ritual of the Minoans.
Who acts: Minotaur, bull leaping · What happens: be · To what, where: myth, real sport
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 (Minotaur, bull leaping), 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 | 2 Minotaur | det |
| 2 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 myth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 myth | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 myth | det |
| 5 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 myth | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sport | cc |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaping | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bull | punct |
| 10 | leaping | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sport | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sport | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sport | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sport | amod |
| 14 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 myth | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 ritual | cc |
| 16 | ritual | ritual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sport | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Minoans | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Minoans | det |
| 19 | Minoans | Minoan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 ritual | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Minotaur | a myth but a real sport or ritual of the Minoans | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | bull leaping | a real sport or ritual of the Minoans | tree rules |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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