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title: In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings, where King H… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings, where King Harold died, and became king of England; the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story in pictures. Who acts: William, King, Bayeux Tapestry. A sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary
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# Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 6

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In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings, where King Harold died, and became king of England; the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story in pictures.

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**Who acts:** William, King, Bayeux Tapestry · **What happens:** win, die, become, tell · **To what, where:** Battle, 1066, king, story, pictures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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, King, Bayeux Tapestry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:6
# text = In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings, where King Harold died, and became king of England; the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story in pictures.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1066	1066	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Battle	battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Hastings	Hastings	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Harold	Harold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Bayeux	Bayeux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Tapestry	Tapestry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **win** | past | William of Normandy | the Battle of Hastings |  | 1066 |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
| 2 | **die** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **become** | past | King *not said here* | king of England |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Bayeux Tapestry | the story |  | pictures |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:6`.

**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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