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title: The doctor Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote a great medi… — The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The doctor Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote a great medical encyclopedia that European universities used for hundreds of years. Who acts: doctor, European universities. A sentence of the lesson «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» of the history course of Mova's primary 
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# The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world, sentence 11

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The doctor Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote a great medical encyclopedia that European universities used for hundreds of years.

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**Who acts:** doctor, European universities · **What happens:** know, write, use · **To what, where:** doctor, Europe, great medical encyclopedia

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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 (doctor, European universities), 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:11
# text = The doctor Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote a great medical encyclopedia that European universities used for hundreds of years.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	Sina	Sina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Avicenna	Avicenna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	encyclopedia	encyclopedia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **know** | participle |  | the doctor *not said here* |  | Europe |  | as Avicenna | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as avicenna=Attribute |
| 2 | **write** | past | the doctor | a great medical encyclopedia |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encyclopedia=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past | European universities | a great medical encyclopedia |  |  |  | for hundreds of years | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Theme for hundred=Eventuality |

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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, 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.

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