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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 (Ancient Olympic winners, men, modern Olympics), 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:11 # text = Ancient Olympic winners got a crown of olive leaves, not gold medals, and only men could compete; the modern Olympics began in 1896. # 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 Ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Olympic olympic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 winners winner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 olive olive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 medals medal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 compete compete VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Olympics Olympics PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1896 1896 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Ancient Olympic winners | a crown of olive leaves and gold medals | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus | | 2 | **compete** | could | men | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **begin** | past | the modern Olympics | | | 1896 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **crown** | | | olive leaves and gold medals | | | | | nom crown «communication 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:11`. **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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