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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 (Socrates, important people, 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:15 # text = Socrates taught by asking questions about what is good, fair and true, which often showed that important people knew less than they thought, and he was put on trial and sentenced to death for upsetting powerful people. # 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 ×4 1 Socrates socrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 by by SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 5 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 22 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 23 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 sentenced sentence VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 38 upsetting upsetting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obl 39 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Socrates | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Socrates *not said here* | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about what=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **show** | past | | | | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **know** | past | important people | less | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer less=Stimulus | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **put** | past · passive | | Pan | | trial | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on trial=Destination | | 10 | **sentence** | participle | | | | | | to death | tree rules | | 11 | **upsetting** | gerund | | powerful people | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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 ×4. **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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