--- title: The two most famous were Athens, a city of traders, sailors, thinker… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: The two most famous were Athens, a city of traders, sailors, thinkers and artists, and Sparta, a city of soldiers where boys began training at seven. Who acts: two famous, boys. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 2 The two most famous were Athens, a city of traders, sailors, thinkers and artists, and Sparta, a city of soldiers where boys began training at seven. **Who acts:** two famous, boys · **What happens:** be, begin, train · **To what, where:** Athens, seven 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 (two famous, boys), 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:2 # text = The two most famous were Athens, a city of traders, sailors, thinkers and artists, and Sparta, a city of soldiers where boys began training at seven. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 4 advmod _ _ 4 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Athens Athens PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 thinkers thinker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 artists artist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Sparta Sparta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 27 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl:relcl 29 training train VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | the two famous | Athens | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | boys | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **train** | gerund | boys *not said here* | | | seven | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:2`. **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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