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title: Athens did that for a whole city, and could even vote to send a too-… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Athens did that for a whole city, and could even vote to send a too-powerful politician away for ten years. Who acts: Athens. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 3

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Athens did that for a whole city, and could even vote to send a too-powerful politician away for ten years.

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**Who acts:** Athens · **What happens:** do, vote, send · **To what, where:** that, powerful politician

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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 (Athens), 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:3
# text = Athens did that for a whole city, and could even vote to send a too-powerful politician away for ten years.
# 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): no change
1	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **do** | past | Athens | that |  |  |  | for a whole city | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **vote** | could | Athens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | Athens *not said here* | a powerful politician |  |  | year | away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politician=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): no change. **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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