Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 7
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 4,500 years ago for the pharaoh Khufu and was the tallest building in the world for nearly 4,000 years.
What happens: build, be · To what, where: Great Pyramid, tallest building, world
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pyramid | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Pyramid | amod |
| 3 | Pyramid | pyramid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Giza | case |
| 5 | Giza | Giza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pyramid | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | aux:pass |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 4,500 | advmod |
| 9 | 4,500 | 4,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 built | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 pharaoh | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pharaoh | det |
| 14 | pharaoh | pharaoh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obl |
| 15 | Khufu | Khufu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pharaoh | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 building | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 building | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 building | det |
| 19 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 building | amod |
| 20 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 building | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 4,000 | advmod |
| 26 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the Great Pyramid of Giza | year | for the pharaoh; ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for pharaoh=Asset | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the tallest building | the world | 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:7.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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