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title: The list of Seven Wonders was made by ancient Greek writers; of the… — Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty… · tree and pragmatics
description: The list of Seven Wonders was made by ancient Greek writers; of the seven, only the Great Pyramid of Giza still stands, and it was built by thousands of workers, many of them paid and fed, not by one ruler alone. Who acts: ancient Greek writers, Great Pyramid, thousands, workers. A sentence of the l
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# Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls, sentence 8

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The list of Seven Wonders was made by ancient Greek writers; of the seven, only the Great Pyramid of Giza still stands, and it was built by thousands of workers, many of them paid and fed, not by one ruler alone.

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**Who acts:** ancient Greek writers, Great Pyramid, thousands, workers · **What happens:** make, stand, build, pay, feed, list · **To what, where:** list, Pyramid, many, Seven Wonders

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls» 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 (ancient Greek writers, Great Pyramid, thousands, workers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:8
# text = The list of Seven Wonders was made by ancient Greek writers; of the seven, only the Great Pyramid of Giza still stands, and it was built by thousands of workers, many of them paid and fed, not by one ruler alone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Wonders	wonder	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Giza	Giza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl:agent	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
46	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive | ancient Greek writers | the list of Seven Wonders |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the Great Pyramid of Giza |  |  |  | still | of the seven | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive | thousands of workers | Pyramid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 4 | **pay** | participle · passive | workers *not said here* | many of workers |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 5 | **feed** | participle | workers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **list** |  |  | Seven Wonders |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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