Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 15

Socrates taught by asking questions about what is good, fair and true, which often showed that important people knew less than they thought, and he was put on trial and sentenced to death for upsetting powerful people.

Who acts: Socrates, important people, people · What happens: teach, ask, be, show, know, think · To what, where: questions, less, Pan, trial, powerful people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Socrates, important people, 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	Socrates	socrates	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 asking	mark
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 taught	advcl
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asking	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 questions	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 good	cop
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fair	punct
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 good	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 true	cc
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 good	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 showed	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 showed	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 showed	advmod
17	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 good	acl:relcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 knew	mark
19	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 showed	ccomp
22	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 knew	obj
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 thought	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 less	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 put	aux:pass
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 showed	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 trial	case
32	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sentenced	cc
34	sentenced	sentence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 put	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sentenced	obl
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 upsetting	mark
38	upsetting	upsetting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 sentenced	advcl
39	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 people	amod
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 upsetting	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 taught	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	Socrates				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Socrates not said here	questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about what=Topic
3	is	present				good property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules
5	be						tree rules
6	show	past				often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	know	past	important people	less			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer less=Stimulus
8	think speech: other	past	people				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	put	past · passive		Pan	trial		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on trial=Destination
10	sentence	participle				to death	tree rules
11	upsetting	gerund		powerful people			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:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:15.

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 ×4. 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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