--- title: Democracy means rule by the people; in Athens, about 2,500 years ago… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: Democracy means rule by the people; in Athens, about 2,500 years ago, citizens met on a hill to vote on laws and on war and peace. Who acts: Democracy, citizens, people. 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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 (Democracy, citizens, people), 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:7 # text = Democracy means rule by the people; in Athens, about 2,500 years ago, citizens met on a hill to vote on laws and on war and peace. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 Democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Athens Athens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 2,500 2500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Democracy | rule | | | | by the people | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | | 2 | **meet** | past | citizens | | | Athens | | on a hill; ago *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **vote** | to-infinitive | citizens *not said here* | | | laws and war and peace | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rule** | | the people | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: by=agent | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×4. **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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