--- title: Athens was a city of traders, sailors, thinkers and artists, with th… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: Athens was a city of traders, sailors, thinkers and artists, with the Parthenon temple to the goddess Athena on its rocky hill, the Acropolis. Who acts: Athens. 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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 (Athens), 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:10 # text = Athens was a city of traders, sailors, thinkers and artists, with the Parthenon temple to the goddess Athena on its rocky hill, the Acropolis. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Athens Athens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 thinkers thinker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 artists artist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Parthenon parthenon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Athena athena NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Acropolis Acropolis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | past | Athens | a city and the Parthenon temple to the goddess Athena on Athena's rocky hill | | | | of traders and sailors and thinkers and artists | 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](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:10`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/9/) - next →: [Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/)