Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 9

A noble boy became a page at about seven, a squire at about fourteen, and could be knighted at about twenty-one.

Who acts: noble boy · What happens: become, knight · To what, where: page, seven

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 (noble boy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 page	det
6	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 seven	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 seven	advmod
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 became	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 squire	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 squire	det
12	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seven	appos
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 fourteen	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 fourteen	advmod
15	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 squire	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knighted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knighted	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 knighted	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 knighted	aux:pass
20	knighted	knight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 became	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	25 one	case
22	about	about	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 one	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 twenty	punct
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 knighted	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	a noble boy	a page		seven			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	knight	could · passive	a noble boy not said here					at twenty one	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»

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:9.

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): no change. 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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