--- title: Some castles really were prisons: the Tower of London held famous pr… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Some castles really were prisons: the Tower of London held famous prisoners for hundreds of years, and Lancaster Castle was still used as a prison until 2011. Who acts: castles, Tower. 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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 (castles, Tower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:14 # text = Some castles really were prisons: the Tower of London held famous prisoners for hundreds of years, and Lancaster Castle was still used as a prison until 2011. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 castles castle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 prisons prison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 Lancaster lancaster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 Castle castle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 until until ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 2011 2011 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 a** | past | some castles | prisons | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | past | the Tower of London | famous prisoners | | | | for hundreds of years | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme | | 3 | **use** | past · passive | | Lancaster Castle | | | until 2011; still | as a prison | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as prison=Attribute | 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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:14`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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