Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 11
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 2560 BC, Cleopatra died in 30 BC and people landed on the Moon in 1969, so Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who acts: Cleopatra, people · What happens: build, die, land, live · To what, where: Great Pyramid, Moon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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 (Cleopatra, people), 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 2560 | advmod |
| 9 | 2560 | 2560 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 built | obl |
| 10 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 2560 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 2560 | punct |
| 12 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 30 | case |
| 15 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 died | obl |
| 16 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 landed | cc |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 landed | nsubj |
| 19 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 died | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Moon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Moon | det |
| 22 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 landed | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1969 | case |
| 24 | 1969 | 1969 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 landed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lived | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 lived | advmod |
| 27 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 died | advcl |
| 29 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 lived | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 landing | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 landing | det |
| 34 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 landing | compound |
| 35 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obl |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 building | case |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 building | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 building | det |
| 39 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Pyramid | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Pyramid | det |
| 42 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Pyramid | amod |
| 43 | Pyramid | pyramid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 building | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the Great Pyramid of Giza | 2560 BC obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Cleopatra | in 30 BC | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 30=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | land | past | people | the Moon | in 1969 | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on moon=Destination | |||
| 4 | live | past | Cleopatra | time | to the Moon landing; than the building of the Great Pyramid; close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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