Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 16
Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who acts: Cleopatra · What happens: live · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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 (Cleopatra), 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 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 building | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 building | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 building | det |
| 11 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Pyramid | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Pyramid | det |
| 14 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Pyramid | amod |
| 15 | Pyramid | pyramid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 building | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Cleopatra | us | time | than the building of the Great Pyramid; close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.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): 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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