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title: At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds. Who acts: knights. 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 claus
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# Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 14

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At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** joust, charge, blunt, cheer · **To what, where:** tournaments, each

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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), 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:14
# text = At tournaments knights jousted, charging at each other on horseback with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	tournaments	tournament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jousted	joust	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	blunted	blunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	lances	lance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **joust** | past | knights |  |  | tournaments |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **charge** | gerund | knights *not said here* |  |  | each |  | on horseback; with blunted lances in front of cheering crowds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory |
| 3 | **blunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cheer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:14`.

**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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