BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 7
The Great Pyramid, finished about 2560 BC, is about 4,500 years old; Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to its building, and the last woolly mammoths were still alive on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic, after it was built.
Who acts: Great Pyramid, Cleopatra, last woolly mammoths · What happens: finished, be, live, build · To what, where: 2560, Wrangel Island, Pyramid
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 (Great Pyramid, Cleopatra, last woolly mammoths), 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 | 14 old | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 5 | finished | finished | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Pyramid | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 2560 | advmod |
| 7 | 2560 | 2560 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 finished | obl |
| 8 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 2560 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pyramid | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 4,500 | advmod |
| 12 | 4,500 | 4,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 old | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 16 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | parataxis |
| 18 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 lived | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 landing | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 landing | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 landing | amod |
| 24 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 landing | compound |
| 25 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | nmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 building | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 building | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 building | nmod:poss |
| 29 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 landing | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 alive | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 alive | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mammoths | det |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mammoths | amod |
| 34 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mammoths | amod |
| 35 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 alive | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 alive | cop |
| 37 | still | still | ADV | _ | 38 alive | advmod |
| 38 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lived | conj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 Island | case |
| 40 | Wrangel | Wrangel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Island | compound |
| 41 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 alive | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Arctic | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 Arctic | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Arctic | det |
| 45 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Island | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 built | punct |
| 47 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 50 built | mark |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 built | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 built | aux:pass |
| 50 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 alive | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 old | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finished | participle | the Great Pyramid not said here | 2560 BC | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Great Pyramid | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | past | Cleopatra | time | close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | the last woolly mammoths | Wrangel Island in the Arctic | still | alive property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | build | past · passive | Pyramid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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