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title: While western Europe was building castles, some of the world's great… — The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: While western Europe was building castles, some of the world's greatest centres of learning were in the Islamic world, from Spain to Central Asia. Who acts: western Europe, some. A sentence of the lesson «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» of the history course of Mova's primary sc
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# The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world, sentence 0

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While western Europe was building castles, some of the world's greatest centres of learning were in the Islamic world, from Spain to Central Asia.

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**Who acts:** western Europe, some · **What happens:** build, be · **To what, where:** castles, Islamic world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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 (western Europe, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:0
# text = While western Europe was building castles, some of the world's greatest centres of learning were in the Islamic world, from Spain to Central Asia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
6	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
27	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **build** | past · progressive | western Europe | castles |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | some |  |  | the Islamic world |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R8-pos-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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