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title: The story that knights had to be lifted onto horses by cranes is a m… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: The story that knights had to be lifted onto horses by cranes is a myth. Who acts: knights, story. A sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 11

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The story that knights had to be lifted onto horses by cranes is a myth.

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**Who acts:** knights, story · **What happens:** have, lift, be · **To what, where:** story, myth

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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 (knights, story), 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:11
# text = The story that knights had to be lifted onto horses by cranes is a myth.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **have** | past | knights | the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive · passive | the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onto horses; by cranes | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: onto horse=Destination by crane=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the story | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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