The Mongols, sentence 7

Mongol armies moved very fast because each rider had several horses, and they used tricks such as pretending to retreat to lure enemies into traps.

Who acts: Mongol armies, rider, armies, tricks · What happens: move, have, use, pretend, retreat, lure · To what, where: several horses, tricks, enemies, traps

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» 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 (Mongol armies, rider, armies, tricks), 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	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 armies	compound
2	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 moved	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 rider	det
8	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	advcl
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horses	amod
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 used	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 used	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	conj
16	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obj
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	19 pretending	mark
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 tricks	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 retreat	mark
21	retreat	retreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pretending	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lure	mark
23	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 retreat	advcl
24	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lure	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 traps	case
26	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lure	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	past	Mongol armies		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	each rider	several horses		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	use	past	armies = army	tricks		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient
4	pretend	gerund	tricks not said here			tree rules
5	retreat	to-infinitive	tricks not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	lure	to-infinitive	tricks not said here	enemies	into traps result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient into trap=Result

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:023-the-mongols.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): R7-rel-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.

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