Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 11

Ancient Olympic winners got a crown of olive leaves, not gold medals, and only men could compete; the modern Olympics began in 1896.

Who acts: Ancient Olympic winners, men, modern Olympics · What happens: get, compete, begin, crown · To what, where: crown, 1896, olive leaves

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 (Ancient Olympic winners, men, modern Olympics), 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	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 winners	amod
2	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 winners	amod
3	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crown	det
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
8	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 leaves	amod
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crown	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 medals	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 medals	advmod
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 medals	compound
13	medals	medal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leaves	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 compete	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 compete	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 men	advmod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 compete	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 compete	aux
19	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Olympics	det
22	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Olympics	amod
23	Olympics	Olympics	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 compete	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 1896	case
26	1896	1896	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 began	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	past	Ancient Olympic winners	a crown of olive leaves and gold medals		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus
2	compete	could	men			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	the modern Olympics		1896	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	crown			olive leaves and gold medals		nom crown «communication 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:11.

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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