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title: A noble boy became a page at about seven, a squire at about fourteen… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: A noble boy became a page at about seven, a squire at about fourteen, and could be knighted at about twenty-one. Who acts: noble boy. 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 9

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A noble boy became a page at about seven, a squire at about fourteen, and could be knighted at about twenty-one.

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**Who acts:** noble boy · **What happens:** become, knight · **To what, where:** page, seven

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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 (noble boy), 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:9
# text = A noble boy became a page at about seven, a squire at about fourteen, and could be knighted at about twenty-one.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	knighted	knight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **become** | past | a noble boy | a page |  | seven |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **knight** | could · passive | a noble boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at twenty one | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP» |

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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:9`.

**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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