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title: Egyptians had three seasons: the flood, the growing time and the har… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics
description: Egyptians had three seasons: the flood, the growing time and the harvest. Who acts: Egyptians. 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 clause.
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# Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 8

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Egyptians had three seasons: the flood, the growing time and the harvest.

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**Who acts:** Egyptians · **What happens:** have, grow

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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 (Egyptians), 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:8
# text = Egyptians had three seasons: the flood, the growing time and the harvest.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Egyptians |  |  |  | season |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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.

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

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