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title: The curse of Tutankhamun is a newspaper legend; most people who open… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics
description: The curse of Tutankhamun is a newspaper legend; most people who opened the tomb lived long lives. Who acts: curse, most people. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 13

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The curse of Tutankhamun is a newspaper legend; most people who opened the tomb lived long lives.

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**Who acts:** curse, most people · **What happens:** be, open, live, curse · **To what, where:** newspaper legend, tomb, long lives, Tutankhamun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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 (curse, most people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:13
# text = The curse of Tutankhamun is a newspaper legend; most people who opened the tomb lived long lives.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tutankhamun	Tutankhamun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the curse of Tutankhamun | a newspaper legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | most people | the tomb |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tomb=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | most people | long lives |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 4 | **curse** |  |  | Tutankhamun |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:13`.

**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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