Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 6

Egyptians also wrote with hieroglyphs, which nobody could read for over a thousand years until the Rosetta Stone gave the key.

Who acts: Egyptians, nobody, Rosetta Stone · What happens: write, read, give · To what, where: hieroglyphs, key

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 (Egyptians, nobody, Rosetta Stone), 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	Egyptians	egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 wrote	advmod
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 hieroglyphs	case
5	hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 read	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Int	10 read	obj
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 read	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hieroglyphs	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
12	over	over	ADV	_	14 thousand	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thousand	det
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 read	obl
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 gave	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Stone	det
18	Rosetta	Rosetta	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Stone	compound
19	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 read	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 key	det
22	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Egyptians			with hieroglyphs	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	could	nobody	hieroglyphs	year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
3	give	past	the Rosetta Stone	the key			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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): R5-strong ×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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