Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 10
The Olympic Games began in 776 BC at Olympia in honour of Zeus, with running, wrestling, the discus and chariot races, and wars paused so people could travel safely.
Who acts: Olympic Games, wars, people · What happens: begin, pause, travel, honour · To what, where: running, 776, Zeus
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 (Olympic Games, wars, people), 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 | 3 Games | det |
| 2 | Olympic | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Games | compound |
| 3 | Games | game | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 776 | case |
| 6 | 776 | 776 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 began | obl |
| 7 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 776 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Olympia | case |
| 9 | Olympia | Olympia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 honour | case |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Zeus | case |
| 13 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 honour | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 running | punct |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 running | mark |
| 16 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrestling | punct |
| 18 | wrestling | wrestling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 running | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 discus | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 discus | det |
| 21 | discus | discus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wrestling | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 races | cc |
| 23 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 races | compound |
| 24 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 discus | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wars | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 paused | cc |
| 27 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 paused | nsubj |
| 28 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 32 travel | mark |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 travel | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 travel | aux |
| 32 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 paused | advcl |
| 33 | safely | safely | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 travel | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Olympic Games | running and wrestling and the discus and chariot races | 776 BC | at Olympia; in honour of Zeus | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | pause | past | wars | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | travel | could | people | safely property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | honour | Zeus | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:10.
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 ×3, 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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