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title: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are legends, not prov… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are legends, not proven history. Who acts: King, legends. 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 13

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are legends, not proven history.

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**Who acts:** King, legends · **What happens:** be, not prove · **To what, where:** legends, history

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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 (King, legends), 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:13
# text = King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are legends, not proven history.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | King | legends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **prove** | participle | legends *not said here* | history |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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.

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

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