BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 26
Cleopatra lived about 2,000 years ago, dying in 30 BC, so in her time the Great Pyramid was already about 2,500 years old.
Who acts: Cleopatra, Great Pyramid · What happens: live, die, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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, Great Pyramid), 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 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 2,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dying | punct |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lived | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 BC | case |
| 10 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 BC | compound |
| 11 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 old | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 old | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 time | nmod:poss |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 old | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Pyramid | det |
| 18 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Pyramid | amod |
| 19 | Pyramid | pyramid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 old | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 old | cop |
| 21 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 about | advmod |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 2,500 | advmod |
| 23 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 old | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Cleopatra | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | gerund | Cleopatra not said here | in 30 BC | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bc=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Great Pyramid | time; year | old property | 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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:26.
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 ×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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