--- title: Early knights wore chain mail and later knights wore fitted plate ar… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: Early knights wore chain mail and later knights wore fitted plate armour, which was so well made that a knight could run and climb onto his horse by himself. Who acts: Early knights, later knights, knight. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Early knights, later knights, knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:10 # text = Early knights wore chain mail and later knights wore fitted plate armour, which was so well made that a knight could run and climb onto his horse by himself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.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 1 Early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 mail mail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 later late ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 8 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl:relcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 onto onto ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **wear** | past | Early knights | chain mail | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mail=Source | | 2 | **wear** | past | later knights | fitted plate armour | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armour=Source | | 3 | **fit** | participle | | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | | fitted plate armour | | | | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **run** | could | a knight | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **climb** | infinitive | a knight *not said here* | | | | | onto boy's horse; by boy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto horse=Trajectory | 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](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:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:10`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/9/) - next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)