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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 (Greeks, comedies, actors), 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:14 # text = The Greeks invented theatre, with comedies and tragedies performed in great open-air theatres by actors wearing masks. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 theatre theatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 with with SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 comedies comedy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 tragedies tragedy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 performed perform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 theatres theatre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 19 wearing wear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 masks mask NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invent** | past | the Greeks | theatre | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theatre=Result | | 2 | **perform** | participle | comedies and tragedies | | | great air theatres | | by actors | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wear** | gerund | actors *not said here* | masks | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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