Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 15
Coats of arms let knights be recognised when helmets hid their faces, and towns, schools and football clubs still use them.
Who acts: Coats, helmets, towns · What happens: let, recognise, hide, use · To what, where: knights, faces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history 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 (Coats, helmets, towns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 arms | case |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Coats | nmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 recognised | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 recognised | aux:pass |
| 7 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 let | xcomp |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 hid | advmod |
| 9 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hid | nsubj |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recognised | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 faces | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hid | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 towns | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 towns | cc |
| 15 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 use | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 schools | punct |
| 17 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 towns | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clubs | cc |
| 19 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clubs | compound |
| 20 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Coats | conj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 use | advmod |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 use | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | Coats of arms and football clubs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | recognise | infinitive · passive | knights | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | helmets | knights's faces | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 4 | use | present | towns and schools | knights = knight | still | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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, 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:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:15.
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. 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.
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