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title: Coats of arms let knights be recognised when helmets hid their faces… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: Coats of arms let knights be recognised when helmets hid their faces, and towns, schools and football clubs still use them. Who acts: Coats, helmets, towns. A sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 15

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Coats of arms let knights be recognised when helmets hid their faces, and towns, schools and football clubs still use them.

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**Who acts:** Coats, helmets, towns · **What happens:** let, recognise, hide, use · **To what, where:** knights, faces

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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 (Coats, helmets, towns), 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:15
# text = Coats of arms let knights be recognised when helmets hid their faces, and towns, schools and football clubs still use them.
# 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	Coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **let** | present | Coats of arms and football clubs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recognise** | infinitive · passive |  | knights |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hide** | past | helmets | knights's faces |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | present | towns and schools | knights *= knight* |  |  | still |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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**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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