--- title: The Olympic Games began in 776 BC at Olympia in honour of Zeus, with… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: The Olympic Games began in 776 BC at Olympia in honour of Zeus, with running, wrestling, the discus and chariot races, and wars paused so people could travel safely. Who acts: Olympic Games, wars, 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 (Olympic Games, wars, 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:10 # text = The Olympic Games began in 776 BC at Olympia in honour of Zeus, with running, wrestling, the discus and chariot races, and wars paused so people could travel safely. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Olympic Olympic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Games game PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 776 776 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Olympia Olympia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Zeus Zeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 with with SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 running running NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 wrestling wrestling NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 discus discus NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 paused pause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 safely safely ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the Olympic Games | running and wrestling and the discus and chariot races | | 776 BC | | at Olympia; in honour of Zeus | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **pause** | past | wars | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **travel** | could | people | | | | | safely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **honour** | | | Zeus | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:10`. **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 ×3, 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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