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title: The pyramids hang near the far end, the Romans in the middle, and th… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: The pyramids hang near the far end, the Romans in the middle, and the last few metres are crowded with trains, planes and phones. Who acts: pyramids. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 1

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The pyramids hang near the far end, the Romans in the middle, and the last few metres are crowded with trains, planes and phones.

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**Who acts:** pyramids · **What happens:** hang, crowd · **To what, where:** Romans, far end, last few metres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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 (pyramids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:1
# text = The pyramids hang near the far end, the Romans in the middle, and the last few metres are crowded with trains, planes and phones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:cop
21	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **hang** | present | the pyramids | the Romans in the middle |  |  | near the far end |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near end=Location |
| 2 | **crowd** | present · passive |  | the last few metres |  |  |  | with trains and planes and phones | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with train=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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**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:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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