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title: Egyptians also wrote with hieroglyphs, which nobody could read for o… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics
description: Egyptians also wrote with hieroglyphs, which nobody could read for over a thousand years until the Rosetta Stone gave the key. Who acts: Egyptians, nobody, Rosetta Stone. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 6

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Egyptians also wrote with hieroglyphs, which nobody could read for over a thousand years until the Rosetta Stone gave the key.

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**Who acts:** Egyptians, nobody, Rosetta Stone · **What happens:** write, read, give · **To what, where:** hieroglyphs, key

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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 (Egyptians, nobody, Rosetta Stone), 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:6
# text = Egyptians also wrote with hieroglyphs, which nobody could read for over a thousand years until the Rosetta Stone gave the key.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Egyptians	egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Rosetta	Rosetta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **write** | past | Egyptians |  |  |  |  | with hieroglyphs | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | could | nobody | hieroglyphs |  |  | year |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | past | the Rosetta Stone | the key |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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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**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. **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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