--- title: The pyramids were built by paid workers and farmers taking turns, wh… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics description: The pyramids were built by paid workers and farmers taking turns, who lived in a nearby town; not by slaves, and certainly not by aliens. Who acts: paid workers. 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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 (paid workers), 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:8 # text = The pyramids were built by paid workers and farmers taking turns, who lived in a nearby town; not by slaves, and certainly not by aliens. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 11 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 nearby nearby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 aliens alien NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past · passive | paid workers and farmers | the pyramids | | | | by aliens | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 2 | **pay** | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | gerund | paid workers and farmers *not said here* | turns | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | | 4 | **live** | past | paid workers and farmers | | | a nearby town and slaves | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | 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:8`. **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. 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