Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 14
The Greeks invented theatre, with comedies and tragedies performed in great open-air theatres by actors wearing masks.
Who acts: Greeks, comedies, actors · What happens: invent, perform, wear · To what, where: theatre, great air theatres, masks
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 (Greeks, comedies, actors), 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 Greeks | det |
| 2 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 invented | nsubj |
| 3 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invented | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 performed | punct |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 performed | mark |
| 7 | comedies | comedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 performed | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tragedies | cc |
| 9 | tragedies | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 comedies | conj |
| 10 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 invented | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 theatres | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 theatres | amod |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 air | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 theatres | compound |
| 16 | theatres | theatre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 performed | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 actors | case |
| 18 | actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 performed | obl |
| 19 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 actors | acl |
| 20 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wearing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past | the Greeks | theatre | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theatre=Result | ||||
| 2 | perform | participle | comedies and tragedies | great air theatres | by actors | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | wear | gerund | actors not said here | masks | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-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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