--- title: Greeks sailed in triremes, fast warships with three rows of oars, an… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: Greeks sailed in triremes, fast warships with three rows of oars, and traded olive oil, wine and pottery. Who acts: Greeks. 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 pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/) / 16 # Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 16 Greeks sailed in triremes, fast warships with three rows of oars, and traded olive oil, wine and pottery. **Who acts:** Greeks · **What happens:** sail, trade · **To what, where:** triremes, olive oil 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 (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:16 # text = Greeks sailed in triremes, fast warships with three rows of oars, and traded olive oil, wine and pottery. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 triremes trireme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 warships warship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 oars oar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 traded trade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 olive olive NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pottery pottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **sail** | past | Greeks | | | triremes and fast warships with three rows of oars | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **trade** | past | Greeks *not said here* | olive oil and wine and pottery | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme | 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:16`. **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 ×2, 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. 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