--- title: Pythagoras studied triangles, Archimedes discovered how things float… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: Pythagoras studied triangles, Archimedes discovered how things float and shouted Eureka, and Eratosthenes measured the size of the Earth with shadows. Who acts: Pythagoras, Archimedes, things, Eratosthenes. 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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 (Pythagoras, Archimedes, things, Eratosthenes), 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:17 # text = Pythagoras studied triangles, Archimedes discovered how things float and shouted Eureka, and Eratosthenes measured the size of the Earth with shadows. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pythagoras Pythagoras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 studied study VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 triangles triangle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Archimedes Archimedes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 Eureka Eureka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Eratosthenes Eratosthenes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 measured measure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **study** | past | Pythagoras | triangles | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=Topic | | 2 | **discover** | past | Archimedes | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **float** | present | things | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Archimedes *not said here* | Eureka | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eureka=Topic | | 5 | **measure** | past | Eratosthenes | the size of the Earth | | | | with shadows | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme size=Value | 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:17`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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