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title: Stonehenge was begun about 5,000 years ago, more than 2,000 years be… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Stonehenge was begun about 5,000 years ago, more than 2,000 years before the Druids (priests of the ancient Celts) are first mentioned in history. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 11

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Stonehenge was begun about 5,000 years ago, more than 2,000 years before the Druids (priests of the ancient Celts) are first mentioned in history.

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**What happens:** begin, mention · **To what, where:** Stonehenge, Druids, history

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:11
# text = Stonehenge was begun about 5,000 years ago, more than 2,000 years before the Druids (priests of the ancient Celts) are first mentioned in history.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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 ×1
1	Stonehenge	Stonehenge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Druids	druid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Celts	celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
25	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
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 | **begin** | past · passive |  | Stonehenge |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the Druids |  | history | year | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): R5-strong ×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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