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A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/) / 3 # Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 3 Think of moving a fridge across a sandy beach: you would put it on a sledge and wet the sand so it slides. **Who acts:** you, sand · **What happens:** think, move, put, wet, slide · **To what, where:** fridge, sandy beach, sledge, sand 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 (you, sand), 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:3 # text = Think of moving a fridge across a sandy beach: you would put it on a sledge and wet the sand so it slides. # 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 ×2 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 3 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 sandy sandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sledge sledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 wet wet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 slides slide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **move** | gerund | you *not said here* | a fridge | | a sandy beach | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fridge=Theme across beach=Trajectory | | 3 | **put** | would | you | fridge | | a sledge | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on sledge=Destination | | 4 | **wet** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the sand | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | | 5 | **slide** | present | sand | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:3`. **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 ×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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