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title: In Sparta boys left home at seven to train hard as soldiers, and Spa… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics
description: In Sparta boys left home at seven to train hard as soldiers, and Spartan girls also did sports to be strong. Who acts: Sparta boys, Spartan girls. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 11

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In Sparta boys left home at seven to train hard as soldiers, and Spartan girls also did sports to be strong.

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**Who acts:** Sparta boys, Spartan girls · **What happens:** leave, train, do, be · **To what, where:** seven, sports

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history 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 (Sparta boys, Spartan girls), 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:11
# text = In Sparta boys left home at seven to train hard as soldiers, and Spartan girls also did sports to be strong.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Sparta	Sparta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	train	train	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Spartan	spartan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
19	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Sparta boys |  |  | seven |  | home *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at seven=Location |
| 2 | **train** | to-infinitive | Sparta boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as soldiers; hard *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as soldier=Attribute |
| 3 | **do** | past | Spartan girls | sports |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Spartan girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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. **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/).

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