--- title: They often quarrelled, like neighbouring schools with their own rule… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: They often quarrelled, like neighbouring schools with their own rules and uniforms, but they shared a language, the same gods and the Olympic Games, and joined together against outside enemies. Who acts: Greeks. 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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 (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:1 # text = They often quarrelled, like neighbouring schools with their own rules and uniforms, but they shared a language, the same gods and the Olympic Games, and joined together against outside enemies. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 quarrelled quarrel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:VBG:Degree=Pos 7 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 uniforms uniform NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Olympic Olympic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Games game PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 31 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 against against ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **quarrel** | past | Greeks *= greek* | | | | | like neighbouring schools with Greeks's own rules and uniforms; often *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **share** | past | Greeks *= greek* | a language | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **join** | past | Greeks *= greek* *not said here* | | | | | against outside enemies; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **rule** | | Greeks *= greek* | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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