--- title: Archaeologists (people who dig up and study old remains) dig up the… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics description: Archaeologists (people who dig up and study old remains) dig up the real clues: bread ovens and workers' graves beside the pyramids, flakes of old paint on Greek statues, Stone Age huts in open fields, and court records from Salem. Who acts: people, Archaeologists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Archaeologists), 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:2 # text = Archaeologists (people who dig up and study old remains) dig up the real clues: bread ovens and workers' graves beside the pyramids, flakes of old paint on Greek statues, Stone Age huts in open fields, and court records from Salem. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Archaeologists archaeologist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 remains remains NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 8 obj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 12 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 ovens oven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 graves grave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 24 beside beside ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 flakes flake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 huts hut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 records record NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Salem Salem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig up** | present | people | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **study** | present | people *not said here* | old remains | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Topic | | 3 | **dig up** | present | Archaeologists | the real clues | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clue=Theme | 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. **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:2`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Ancient times and famous stories, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/1/) - next →: [Ancient times and famous stories, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/)