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title: Hieroglyphs were Egyptian writing with hundreds of signs; some stood… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics
description: Hieroglyphs were Egyptian writing with hundreds of signs; some stood for sounds, like letters, and some for whole words. Who acts: Hieroglyphs, some. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 15

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Hieroglyphs were Egyptian writing with hundreds of signs; some stood for sounds, like letters, and some for whole words.

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**Who acts:** Hieroglyphs, some · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** Egyptian writing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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 (Hieroglyphs, some), 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:15
# text = Hieroglyphs were Egyptian writing with hundreds of signs; some stood for sounds, like letters, and some for whole words.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | past | Hieroglyphs | Egyptian writing |  |  |  | with hundreds of signs | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | some |  |  |  |  | for sounds like letters; for whole words | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for sound=Attribute |

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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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:15`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

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

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