Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 6
Meanwhile most people farmed, ate bread and onions, and played board games like senet.
Who acts: most people · What happens: farm, eat, play · To what, where: bread, board games
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 (most 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 farmed | advmod |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 farmed | nsubj |
| 4 | farmed | farm | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ate | punct |
| 6 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 farmed | conj |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ate | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 onions | cc |
| 9 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bread | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 played | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 played | cc |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 farmed | conj |
| 13 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 games | compound |
| 14 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 played | obj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 senet | case |
| 16 | senet | senet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 games | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 farmed | 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 | farm | past | most people | meanwhile property | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | most people not said here | bread and onions | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play | past | most people not said here | board games | like senet | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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