Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 4
The Greeks also gave us the Olympic Games, the theatre, and a world of myths about Zeus, Athena and heroes like Heracles, which were real religion to them, not just stories like Percy Jackson.
Who acts: Greeks, world · What happens: give, be · To what, where: Olympic Games, us, real religion, Greeks
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, world), 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 | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Games | det |
| 7 | Olympic | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Games | compound |
| 8 | Games | game | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 theatre | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 theatre | det |
| 11 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Games | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 world | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 world | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 myths | case |
| 17 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 world | nmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 Zeus | case |
| 19 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 myths | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Athena | punct |
| 21 | Athena | Athena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Zeus | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heroes | cc |
| 23 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 myths | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 Heracles | case |
| 25 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heroes | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 religion | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 religion | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 religion | cop |
| 29 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 religion | amod |
| 30 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 world | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 religion | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stories | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 stories | advmod |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 stories | advmod |
| 36 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 religion | conj |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 Jackson | case |
| 38 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Jackson | compound |
| 39 | Jackson | Jackson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 stories | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Greeks | the Olympic Games and the theatre | us | a world of myths about Zeus and Athena and heroes like Heracles obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient game=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | past | a world of myths about Zeus and Athena and heroes like Heracles | real religion and stories like Percy Jackson | Greeks = greek | 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:4.
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): 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.
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