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title: Many of these myths were spread by later writers, especially in the… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of these myths were spread by later writers, especially in the 1800s, who liked to make the past look silly and backward. Who acts: later writers, past. 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 
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# Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 3

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Many of these myths were spread by later writers, especially in the 1800s, who liked to make the past look silly and backward.

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**Who acts:** later writers, past · **What happens:** spread, like, make, look · **To what, where:** Many, past

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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 (later writers, past), 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:3
# text = Many of these myths were spread by later writers, especially in the 1800s, who liked to make the past look silly and backward.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
9	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · passive | later writers | Many of this myths |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | past | later writers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | later writers *not said here* | the past |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** *not said to happen* | infinitive | the past *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:3`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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