Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 4
Egyptian workers did just that with blocks of stone, then dragged them up ramps.
Who acts: Egyptian workers · What happens: do, drag up · To what, where: that, workers
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 (Egyptian workers), 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 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 workers | amod |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 that | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 blocks | case |
| 7 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blocks | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragged | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dragged | advmod |
| 12 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dragged | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dragged | compound:prt |
| 15 | ramps | ramp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dragged | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Egyptian workers | that | with blocks of stone | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | drag up | past | Egyptian workers not said here | workers = worker | then | 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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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): R7-rel-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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