Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 2
Archaeologists (people who dig up and study old remains) dig up the real clues: bread ovens and workers' graves beside the pyramids, flakes of old paint on Greek statues, Stone Age huts in open fields, and court records from Salem.
Who acts: people, Archaeologists · What happens: dig up, study · To what, where: old remains, real clues
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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 (people, Archaeologists), 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 | Archaeologists | archaeologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Archaeologists | appos |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 dig | nsubj |
| 5 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 dig | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 study | cc |
| 8 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dig | conj |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remains | amod |
| 10 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 study | obj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 study | punct |
| 12 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dig | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 clues | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clues | amod |
| 16 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dig | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 ovens | punct |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ovens | compound |
| 19 | ovens | oven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clues | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 graves | cc |
| 21 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 graves | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 workers | case |
| 23 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ovens | conj |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 pyramids | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pyramids | det |
| 26 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ovens | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flakes | punct |
| 28 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ovens | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 paint | case |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 paint | amod |
| 31 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flakes | nmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 statues | case |
| 33 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 statues | amod |
| 34 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 flakes | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 huts | punct |
| 36 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Age | compound |
| 37 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 huts | compound |
| 38 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 statues | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 fields | case |
| 40 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fields | amod |
| 41 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 huts | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 records | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 records | cc |
| 44 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 records | compound |
| 45 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 statues | conj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 Salem | case |
| 47 | Salem | Salem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 records | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | present | people | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | study | present | people not said here | old remains | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dig up | present | Archaeologists | the real clues | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clue=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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:2.
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 ×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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