--- title: The Greeks also gave us the Olympic Games, the theatre, and a world… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: The Greeks also gave us the Olympic Games, the theatre, and a world of myths about Zeus, Athena and heroes like Heracles, which were real religion to them, not just stories like Percy Jackson. Who acts: Greeks, world. 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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, world), 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:4 # text = The Greeks also gave us the Olympic Games, the theatre, and a world of myths about Zeus, Athena and heroes like Heracles, which were real religion to them, not just stories like Percy Jackson. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Olympic Olympic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Games game PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 theatre theatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Zeus Zeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Athena Athena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 heroes hero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Heracles Heracles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 Percy Percy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Jackson Jackson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the Greeks | the Olympic Games and the theatre | us | | | a world of myths about Zeus and Athena and heroes like Heracles *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient game=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | a world of myths about Zeus and Athena and heroes like Heracles | real religion and stories like Percy Jackson | Greeks *= greek* | | | | 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:4`. **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): 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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