---
title: Cleopatra lived about 2,500 years after the Great Pyramid was built,… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleopatra lived about 2,500 years after the Great Pyramid was built, but only about 2,000 years before the Moon landing, so she is nearer to us than to the pyramid builders. Who acts: Cleopatra. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history course 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/) / 3

# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cleopatra lived about 2,500 years after the Great Pyramid was built, but only about 2,000 years before the Moon landing, so she is nearer to us than to the pyramid builders.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Cleopatra · **What happens:** live, build, be · **To what, where:** Great Pyramid, us

<!-- .vabout -->
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), 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:3
# text = Cleopatra lived about 2,500 years after the Great Pyramid was built, but only about 2,000 years before the Moon landing, so she is nearer to us than to the pyramid builders.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	2,500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Cleopatra |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | the Great Pyramid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | Cleopatra |  | us |  |  | than the pyramid builders; near *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:3`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/2/)
- next →: [Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/4/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/)

