--- title: Their armies were fast because every rider brought several horses an… — The Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: Their armies were fast because every rider brought several horses and swapped to a fresh one when the first got tired, like a relay team that never stops running. Who acts: armies, first, relay team. A sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Mongols](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/) / 2 # The Mongols, sentence 2 Their armies were fast because every rider brought several horses and swapped to a fresh one when the first got tired, like a relay team that never stops running. **Who acts:** armies, first, relay team · **What happens:** be, bring, swap, get, not stop, run · **To what, where:** rider, fresh one This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» 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 (armies, first, relay team), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:023-the-mongols.lesson:2 # text = Their armies were fast because every rider brought several horses and swapped to a fresh one when the first got tired, like a relay team that never stops running. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 023-the-mongols.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 ×2 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 rider rider NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 relay relay NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | grandsons's armies | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | past · passive | | every rider | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme horse=Destination | | 3 | **swap** | past | | | a fresh one | | | like a relay team | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | the first | | | | | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **stop** | present | a relay team | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **run** | gerund | a relay team *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:023-the-mongols.lesson:2`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [The Mongols, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/1/) - next →: [The Mongols, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/)