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title: A full suit of battle armour weighed about 20 to 25 kilograms spread… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: A full suit of battle armour weighed about 20 to 25 kilograms spread over the body, and knights could run, climb and get onto horses. Who acts: full suit, knights. A sentence of the lesson «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 12

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A full suit of battle armour weighed about 20 to 25 kilograms spread over the body, and knights could run, climb and get onto horses.

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**Who acts:** full suit, knights · **What happens:** weigh, spread, run, climb, get · **To what, where:** 20 kilograms, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths 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 (full suit, knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:12
# text = A full suit of battle armour weighed about 20 to 25 kilograms spread over the body, and knights could run, climb and get onto horses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 018-vikings-knights-and-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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
26	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **weigh** | past | a full suit of battle armour | 20 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |
| 2 | **spread** | participle |  | 20 kilograms *not said here* |  | the body |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over body=Location |
| 3 | **run** | could | knights |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **climb** | infinitive | knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | infinitive | knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onto horses | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme onto horse=Destination |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×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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