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title: Cleopatra lived about 2,000 years ago, dying in 30 BC, so in her tim… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleopatra lived about 2,000 years ago, dying in 30 BC, so in her time the Great Pyramid was already about 2,500 years old. Who acts: Cleopatra, Great Pyramid. 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 
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 26

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Cleopatra lived about 2,000 years ago, dying in 30 BC, so in her time the Great Pyramid was already about 2,500 years old.

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**Who acts:** Cleopatra, Great Pyramid · **What happens:** live, die, be

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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: who acts (Cleopatra, Great Pyramid), 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:26
# text = Cleopatra lived about 2,000 years ago, dying in 30 BC, so in her time the Great Pyramid was already about 2,500 years old.
# 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 ×1
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	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Pyramid	pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	already	already	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	2,500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **live** | past | Cleopatra |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | Cleopatra *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in 30 BC | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bc=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Great Pyramid |  |  |  | time; year | old *property* | 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:26`.

**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 ×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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