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title: Most people were peasants who worked from sunrise to sunset, lived i… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: Most people were peasants who worked from sunrise to sunset, lived in small one-room houses and often kept their animals inside in winter for warmth and safety. Who acts: Most people, peasants. A sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history course of Mova's primary school 
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# Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 6

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Most people were peasants who worked from sunrise to sunset, lived in small one-room houses and often kept their animals inside in winter for warmth and safety.

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**Who acts:** Most people, peasants · **What happens:** be, work, live, keep · **To what, where:** peasants, small room houses, animals

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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 (Most people, peasants), 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:6
# text = Most people were peasants who worked from sunrise to sunset, lived in small one-room houses and often kept their animals inside in winter for warmth and safety.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Most people | peasants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | peasants |  |  |  | sunrise; sunset |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | peasants *not said here* |  |  | small room houses |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 4 | **keep** | past | peasants *not said here* | peasants's animals |  |  | winter | for warmth and safety; inside, often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:6`.

**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, 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/).

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