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title: Greece is full of mountains and islands, so the Greeks lived in many… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics
description: Greece is full of mountains and islands, so the Greeks lived in many separate city-states rather than one country. Who acts: Greece, 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 pragm
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# Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 5

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Greece is full of mountains and islands, so the Greeks lived in many separate city-states rather than one country.

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**Who acts:** Greece, Greeks · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** many separate city states

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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 (Greece, 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:5
# text = Greece is full of mountains and islands, so the Greeks lived in many separate city-states rather than one country.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Greece |  |  |  |  | of mountains and islands; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | the Greeks |  |  | many separate city states rather one country |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location |

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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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**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, 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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