Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 16
Plato, Socrates' pupil, wrote about the ideal city; Aristotle, Plato's pupil, studied everything from animals to poetry and logic.
Who acts: Plato, Aristotle · What happens: write, study · To what, where: everything
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 (Plato, Aristotle), 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 | Plato | Plato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pupil | punct |
| 3 | Socrates | Socrates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 Socrates | case |
| 5 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plato | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plato | punct |
| 7 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 10 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 studied | punct |
| 13 | Aristotle | Aristotle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 studied | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pupil | punct |
| 15 | Plato | Plato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Plato | case |
| 17 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Aristotle | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Aristotle | punct |
| 19 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrote | parataxis |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 studied | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 animals | case |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 everything | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 poetry | case |
| 24 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 animals | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 logic | cc |
| 26 | logic | logic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 poetry | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Plato | about the ideal city | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about city=Topic | ||||
| 2 | study | past | Aristotle | everything | from animals to poetry and logic | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent everything=Topic from animal=Source |
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:16.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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