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title: The Greeks believed in many gods living on Mount Olympus, such as Ze… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Greeks believed in many gods living on Mount Olympus, such as Zeus the king, Hera, Poseidon of the sea and Athena of wisdom, who behaved a lot like quarrelsome humans; the wild god Pan was said to fill people with sudden fear, which gave us the word panic. Who acts: Greeks, many gods, Athena, su
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# Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 12

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The Greeks believed in many gods living on Mount Olympus, such as Zeus the king, Hera, Poseidon of the sea and Athena of wisdom, who behaved a lot like quarrelsome humans; the wild god Pan was said to fill people with sudden fear, which gave us the word panic.

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**Who acts:** Greeks, many gods, Athena, sudden fear · **What happens:** believe, live, behave, say, fill, give · **To what, where:** king, Mount Olympus, lot, wild god, people, word panic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» 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 (Greeks, many gods, Athena, sudden fear), 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:12
# text = The Greeks believed in many gods living on Mount Olympus, such as Zeus the king, Hera, Poseidon of the sea and Athena of wisdom, who behaved a lot like quarrelsome humans; the wild god Pan was said to fill people with sudden fear, which gave us the word panic.
# 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Hera	hera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Poseidon	poseidon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Athena	Athena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	behaved	behave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:det
38	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:amod
39	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:compound
40	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	iobj	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
56	.	.	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 | **believe** | past | the Greeks |  |  |  |  | in many gods | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | many gods *not said here* | the king |  | Mount Olympus and Zeus and Hera |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
| 3 | **behave** | past | Athena of wisdom | a lot |  |  |  | like quarrelsome humans | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like human=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the wild god |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fill** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  | with sudden fear | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with fear=Instrument |
| 6 | **give** | past | sudden fear | the word panic | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient panic=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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