--- title: The Great Sphinx is a huge statue with a lion's body and a pharaoh's… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics description: The Great Sphinx is a huge statue with a lion's body and a pharaoh's head, carved from the rock next to the pyramids; its nose was damaged long before Napoleon's soldiers came. Who acts: Great Sphinx, soldiers. 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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 (Great Sphinx, soldiers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:10 # text = The Great Sphinx is a huge statue with a lion's body and a pharaoh's head, carved from the rock next to the pyramids; its nose was damaged long before Napoleon's soldiers came. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Sphinx sphinx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pharaoh pharaoh NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 next next ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 32 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 33 before before SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 Napoleon Napoleon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | the Great Sphinx | a huge statue | | | | with a lion's body and a pharaoh's head | tree rules | | 2 | **carve** | participle | | | | the rock | | next *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **damage** | past · passive | | Sphinx's nose | | | | long *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **come** | past | Napoleon's soldiers | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:10`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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