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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 (thinkers, illness), 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:5 # text = Their thinkers asked big questions: Socrates by asking question after question, Aristotle by studying everything, Archimedes in his bath, and Hippocrates by teaching that illness has natural causes. # 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 ×1 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 thinkers thinker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Socrates Socrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Aristotle Aristotle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 studying study VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 17 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Archimedes Archimedes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Hippocrates Hippocrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 26 by by SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 teaching teach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Greeks's thinkers | big questions | Socrates and Aristotle and Archimedes in Archimedes's bath and Hippocrates | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Greeks's thinkers *not said here* | question | | | after question | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 3 | **study** | gerund | Greeks's thinkers *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund | Greeks's thinkers *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | present | illness | natural causes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | 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:5`. **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 ×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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