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title: The Great Pyramid, finished about 2560 BC, is about 4,500 years old;… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Pyramid, finished about 2560 BC, is about 4,500 years old; Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to its building, and the last woolly mammoths were still alive on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic, after it was built. Who acts: Great Pyramid, Cleopatra, last woolly mamm
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 7

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The Great Pyramid, finished about 2560 BC, is about 4,500 years old; Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to its building, and the last woolly mammoths were still alive on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic, after it was built.

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**Who acts:** Great Pyramid, Cleopatra, last woolly mammoths · **What happens:** finished, be, live, build · **To what, where:** 2560, Wrangel Island, 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: who acts (Great Pyramid, Cleopatra, last woolly mammoths), 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:7
# text = The Great Pyramid, finished about 2560 BC, is about 4,500 years old; Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to its building, and the last woolly mammoths were still alive on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic, after it was built.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, 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	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	finished	finished	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	2560	2560	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	4,500	4,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
24	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Wrangel	Wrangel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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** | participle | the Great Pyramid *not said here* | 2560  BC |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Great Pyramid |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | Cleopatra |  |  |  | time | close *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the last woolly mammoths |  |  | Wrangel Island in the Arctic | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **build** | past · passive |  | Pyramid |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:7`.

**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, 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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