--- title: On Crete the Minoans built the palace of Knossos with many rooms abo… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: On Crete the Minoans built the palace of Knossos with many rooms about 3,700 years ago, and they loved the sea and bull-leaping. Who acts: Minoans. 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 th --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 7 On Crete the Minoans built the palace of Knossos with many rooms about 3,700 years ago, and they loved the sea and bull-leaping. **Who acts:** Minoans · **What happens:** build, love · **To what, where:** palace, Crete, sea 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 (Minoans), 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:7 # text = On Crete the Minoans built the palace of Knossos with many rooms about 3,700 years ago, and they loved the sea and bull-leaping. # 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 ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Crete Crete PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Minoans Minoan PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Knossos Knossos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 3,700 3,700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 leaping leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | the Minoans | the palace of Knossos | | Crete | | with many rooms; ago *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent palace=Theme on crete=Source | | 2 | **love** | past | Minoans *= minoan* | the sea and bull leaping | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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 ×2. **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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