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title: The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 2560 BC, Cleopatra died in… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 2560 BC, Cleopatra died in 30 BC and people landed on the Moon in 1969, so Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid. Who acts: Cleopatra, people. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 11

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The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 2560 BC, Cleopatra died in 30 BC and people landed on the Moon in 1969, so Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

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**Who acts:** Cleopatra, people · **What happens:** build, die, land, live · **To what, where:** Great Pyramid, Moon

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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 (Cleopatra, people), 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:11
# text = The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about 2560 BC, Cleopatra died in 30 BC and people landed on the Moon in 1969, so Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
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	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	2560	2560	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
29	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
44	.	.	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 | **build** | past · passive |  | the Great Pyramid of Giza |  |  |  | 2560  BC *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **die** | past | Cleopatra |  |  |  |  | in 30  BC | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 30=Attribute |
| 3 | **land** | past | people |  |  | the Moon |  | in 1969 | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on moon=Destination |
| 4 | **live** | past | Cleopatra |  |  |  | time | to the Moon landing; than the building of the Great Pyramid; close *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:11`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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