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title: Medieval people drank weak ale, but they also drank water from wells… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: Medieval people drank weak ale, but they also drank water from wells and springs. Who acts: Medieval people, people. A sentence of the lesson «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 16

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Medieval people drank weak ale, but they also drank water from wells and springs.

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**Who acts:** Medieval people, people · **What happens:** drink · **To what, where:** weak ale, water, wells

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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 (Medieval people, people), 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:16
# text = Medieval people drank weak ale, but they also drank water from wells and springs.
# 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): no change
1	Medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wells	well	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **drink** | past | Medieval people | weak ale |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | past | people | water |  | wells and springs |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:16`.

**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): no change. **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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