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title: Pocket watches appeared in Europe in the early 1500s and glasses for… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Pocket watches appeared in Europe in the early 1500s and glasses for reading in Italy around 1290, so a knight of 1100 had neither. Who acts: Pocket watches, knight. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 20

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Pocket watches appeared in Europe in the early 1500s and glasses for reading in Italy around 1290, so a knight of 1100 had neither.

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**Who acts:** Pocket watches, knight · **What happens:** appear, have · **To what, where:** Europe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 (Pocket watches, knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:20
# text = Pocket watches appeared in Europe in the early 1500s and glasses for reading in Italy around 1290, so a knight of 1100 had neither.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	watches	watch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	1500s	1500	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1290	1290	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1100	1100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
25	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **appear** | past | Pocket watches |  |  | Europe |  | in the early 1500s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | a knight of 1100 |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:20`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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