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title: Then Alexander the Great carried Greek ideas from Egypt to India. — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Alexander the Great carried Greek ideas from Egypt to India. Who acts: Alexander. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 6

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Then Alexander the Great carried Greek ideas from Egypt to India.

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**Who acts:** Alexander · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** Greek ideas, India, Egypt

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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 (Alexander), 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:6
# text = Then Alexander the Great carried Greek ideas from Egypt to India.
# 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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **carry** | past | Alexander | Greek ideas | India | Egypt | then |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent idea=Theme from egypt=Initial\_Location to india=Destination |

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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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**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:6`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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