Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 1
That one belief explains the pyramids, the mummies and much of what we know about them.
Who acts: one belief, we · What happens: explain, know · To what, where: pyramids
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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 (one belief, we), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 belief | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 belief | nummod |
| 3 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explains | nsubj |
| 4 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pyramids | det |
| 6 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 explains | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mummies | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mummies | det |
| 9 | mummies | mummy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pyramids | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 much | cc |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pyramids | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 much | nmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 explains | 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 | explain speech: assert | present | that one belief | the pyramids and the mummies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pyramid=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | present | we | about mummies = mummy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus |
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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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