--- title: Most Egyptians were farmers who ate bread, onions and fish and drank… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics description: Most Egyptians were farmers who ate bread, onions and fish and drank thick beer, and children played with balls, dolls and board games like senet. Who acts: Most Egyptians, farmers, children. 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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 (Most Egyptians, farmers, children), 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:17 # text = Most Egyptians were farmers who ate bread, onions and fish and drank thick beer, and children played with balls, dolls and board games like senet. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 2 Egyptians Egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 onions onion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 dolls doll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 senet senet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Most Egyptians | farmers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | past | farmers | bread and onions and fish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | | 3 | **drink** | past | farmers *not said here* | thick beer | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient | | 4 | **play** | past | children | | | | | with balls and dolls like senet and board games | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=Theme | 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:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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