--- title: Think of a whole class where every third child is suddenly missing:… — The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a whole class where every third child is suddenly missing: after the plague there were so few workers that the survivors could ask for higher pay, and the old feudal system began to crack. Who acts: you, third child, few workers, survivors. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, third child, few workers, survivors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:2 # text = Think of a whole class where every third child is suddenly missing: after the plague there were so few workers that the survivors could ask for higher pay, and the old feudal system began to crack. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 8 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:aux 11 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 survivors survivor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 feudal feudal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a whole class | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | every third child | | | | | missing, suddenly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | past | few workers | | | there | after the plague | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | the survivors | few workers *not said here* | | | | for higher pay | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient | | 5 | **begin** | past | the old feudal system | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **crack** | to-infinitive | the old feudal system *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.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, R7-rel-agree ×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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