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title: One of the best-loved tales is the visit of the Queen of Sheba, a ri… — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in man… · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the best-loved tales is the visit of the Queen of Sheba, a rich queen from far away who came to test him with hard questions. Who acts: One, rich queen. A sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion
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# Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 1

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One of the best-loved tales is the visit of the Queen of Sheba, a rich queen from far away who came to test him with hard questions.

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**Who acts:** One, rich queen · **What happens:** love, be, come, test · **To what, where:** visit, Sheba

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics 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 (One, rich queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.lesson:1
# text = One of the best-loved tales is the visit of the Queen of Sheba, a rich queen from far away who came to test him with hard questions.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | One of the best loved tales | the visit |  |  |  | of the Queen of Sheba | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | a rich queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **test** | to-infinitive | a rich queen *not said here* | Sheba |  |  |  | with hard questions | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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