--- title: The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 4,500 years ago for the ph… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics description: The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 4,500 years ago for the pharaoh Khufu and was the tallest building in the world for nearly 4,000 years. 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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: 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:7 # text = The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 4,500 years ago for the pharaoh Khufu and was the tallest building in the world for nearly 4,000 years. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Pyramid pyramid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Giza Giza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 4,500 4,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pharaoh pharaoh NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 Khufu Khufu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 4,000 4,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past · passive | | the Great Pyramid of Giza | | | year | for the pharaoh; ago *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for pharaoh=Asset | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the tallest building | | the world | | | tree rules | 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. 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