--- title: They called it democracy, rule by the people, though women, slaves a… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: They called it democracy, rule by the people, though women, slaves and foreigners could not vote. Who acts: citizens, women, people. 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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 (citizens, women, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:1 # text = They called it democracy, rule by the people, though women, slaves and foreigners could not vote. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 though though SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 12 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 foreigners foreigner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | citizens *= citizen* | peace | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **vote** | could | women and slaves and foreigners | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rule** | | the people | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: by=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:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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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