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title: The famous iron maidens were probably put together in the 1800s, and… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: The famous iron maidens were probably put together in the 1800s, and there is no good evidence they were used in the Middle Ages. Who acts: good evidence. 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 pra
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# Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 17

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The famous iron maidens were probably put together in the 1800s, and there is no good evidence they were used in the Middle Ages.

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**Who acts:** good evidence · **What happens:** put together, be, use · **To what, where:** famous iron maidens, 1800s, maidens, Middle Ages

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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 (good evidence), 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:17
# text = The famous iron maidens were probably put together in the 1800s, and there is no good evidence they were used in the Middle Ages.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	_	25	compound	_	_
25	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **put together** | past · passive |  | the famous iron maidens |  | the 1800s |  | probably, together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1800=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | present | no good evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive |  | maidens *= maiden* |  |  | in the Middle Ages |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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.

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