Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 0
About 2,500 years ago the citizens of Athens met on a hill and voted on laws, war and peace themselves.
Who acts: citizens · What happens: meet, vote · To what, where: hill, laws
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» 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 (citizens), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2,500 | advmod |
| 2 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 met | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 citizens | det |
| 6 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 met | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Athens | case |
| 8 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 citizens | nmod |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 voted | cc |
| 14 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 laws | case |
| 16 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 voted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 war | punct |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laws | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 peace | cc |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 war | conj |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 war | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the citizens of Athens | a hill | ago property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | vote | past | the citizens of Athens not said here | laws and war citizens and peace | vn dub-29.3.2 «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:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:0.
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, 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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