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title: Together they faced the mighty Persian Empire at Marathon and Thermo… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics
description: Together they faced the mighty Persian Empire at Marathon and Thermopylae. Who acts: boys. 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 clause.
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# Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 3

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Together they faced the mighty Persian Empire at Marathon and Thermopylae.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** face · **To what, where:** mighty Persian Empire, Marathon

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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 (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:3
# text = Together they faced the mighty Persian Empire at Marathon and Thermopylae.
# 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	Together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Marathon	Marathon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Thermopylae	Thermopylae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **face** | past | boys *= boy* |  | the mighty Persian Empire | Marathon and Thermopylae |  | together *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme empire=Destination |

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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:3`.

**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/).

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