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title: The Great Pyramid of Giza was finished about 2560 BC, about 4,500 ye… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Pyramid of Giza was finished about 2560 BC, about 4,500 years ago. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 17

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The Great Pyramid of Giza was finished about 2560 BC, about 4,500 years ago.

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**What happens:** finished · **To what, where:** Great Pyramid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:17
# text = The Great Pyramid of Giza was finished about 2560 BC, about 4,500 years ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
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	finished	finished	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	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	4,500	4,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **finished** | past · passive |  | the Great Pyramid of Giza |  |  | year | 2560  BC *obl* | tree rules |

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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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:17`.

**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 ×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/).

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