--- title: Some stories about these times, like the wooden horse of Troy, the M… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: Some stories about these times, like the wooden horse of Troy, the Minotaur or the film 300, are legend or fantasy, and a good historian says which is which. Who acts: stories, good historian. 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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 (stories, good historian), 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:4 # text = Some stories about these times, like the wooden horse of Troy, the Minotaur or the film 300, are legend or fantasy, and a good historian says which is which. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Troy Troy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Minotaur minotaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 fantasy fantasy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 historian historian NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | some stories about this times and the wooden horse of Troy | legend or fantasy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a good historian | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | legend or fantasy | | | | | 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. 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