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title: William Shakespeare wrote plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and… — Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation · tree and pragmatics
description: William Shakespeare wrote plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth around 1600 for the Globe theatre in London, and he first wrote down many words and phrases still used today, such as wild-goose chase. Who acts: William. A sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformat
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# Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 13

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William Shakespeare wrote plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth around 1600 for the Globe theatre in London, and he first wrote down many words and phrases still used today, such as wild-goose chase.

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**Who acts:** William · **What happens:** write, write down, use · **To what, where:** plays, 1600, many words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 (William), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:13
# text = William Shakespeare wrote plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth around 1600 for the Globe theatre in London, and he first wrote down many words and phrases still used today, such as wild-goose chase.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	Romeo	Romeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Juliet	Juliet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Hamlet	Hamlet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Macbeth	Macbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1600	1600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Globe	Globe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	_
26	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | William | plays |  | 1600 |  | such Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and Macbeth; for the Globe theatre in London | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent play=Result for theatre=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **write down** | past | William | many words and phrases |  |  |  | such goose chase; first *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | participle |  | many words and phrases *not said here* |  |  | still; today |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:13`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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