Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls, sentence 8

The list of Seven Wonders was made by ancient Greek writers; of the seven, only the Great Pyramid of Giza still stands, and it was built by thousands of workers, many of them paid and fed, not by one ruler alone.

Who acts: ancient Greek writers, Great Pyramid, thousands, workers · What happens: make, stand, build, pay, feed, list · To what, where: list, Pyramid, many, Seven Wonders

This is a sentence of the lesson «Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls» 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 (ancient Greek writers, Great Pyramid, thousands, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 list	det
2	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Wonders	case
4	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Wonders	nummod
5	Wonders	wonder	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 list	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 writers	case
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 writers	amod
10	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 writers	amod
11	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obl:agent
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stands	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 seven	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seven	det
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 stands	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Pyramid	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 Pyramid	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Pyramid	det
19	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Pyramid	amod
20	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 stands	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Giza	case
22	Giza	Giza	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Pyramid	nmod
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 stands	advmod
24	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 built	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 built	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 built	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 built	aux:pass
29	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 stands	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 thousands	case
31	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 built	obl:agent
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 workers	case
33	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thousands	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 paid	punct
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 paid	nsubj:pass
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 many	nmod
38	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 workers	acl:relcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fed	cc
40	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 paid	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ruler	punct
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 ruler	advmod
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 ruler	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 ruler	nummod
45	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 built	obl:agent
46	alone	alone	ADV	_	45 ruler	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	ancient Greek writers	the list of Seven Wonders			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	stand	present	the Great Pyramid of Giza		still	of the seven	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	build	past · passive	thousands of workers	Pyramid			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
4	pay	participle · passive	workers not said here	many of workers			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	feed	participle	workers not said here				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	list			Seven Wonders			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:8.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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