--- title: Workers cut stone blocks with copper tools, dragged them on sledges… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics description: Workers cut stone blocks with copper tools, dragged them on sledges over sand wetted to make it slippery, and moved them up ramps. Who acts: 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 (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:9 # text = Workers cut stone blocks with copper tools, dragged them on sledges over sand wetted to make it slippery, and moved them up ramps. # 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 ×3 1 Workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 sledges sledge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 14 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 wetted wet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 up up PART RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 ramps ramp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | past | Workers | stone blocks | | | | with copper tools | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=Patient with tool=Instrument | | 2 | **drag** | past | Workers *not said here* | workers *= worker* | | sledges | | over sand | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **wet** | participle | | sand *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | sand | | | | slippery *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 5 | **move up** | past | Workers *not said here* | workers *= worker* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme ramp=Result | 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:9`. **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 ×3. **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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