--- title: At the time people blamed bad air, the stars or God's anger, because… — The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: At the time people blamed bad air, the stars or God's anger, because they did not know about germs. Who acts: people, God. A sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/8/) [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 Black Death and the end of the Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/) / 8 # The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 8 At the time people blamed bad air, the stars or God's anger, because they did not know about germs. **Who acts:** people, God · **What happens:** blame, not know, anger · **To what, where:** bad air This is a sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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 (people, God), 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:8 # text = At the time people blamed bad air, the stars or God's anger, because they did not know about germs. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | past | people | bad air and the stars or God's anger | | | time | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | people | | | | | about germs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about germ=Stimulus | | 3 | **anger** | | God | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:8`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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