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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greece, Greeks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:0 # text = Greece is full of mountains, sea and islands, so instead of one country the Greeks lived in hundreds of separate city-states, each called a polis, with its own government, army and laws. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 12 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 polis polis NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Greece | | | | | of mountains and sea and islands; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | the Greeks | | | hundreds of separate city states a called polis | | instead one country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hundred=Location | | 3 | **call** | participle · passive | | each | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:0`. **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. **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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