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title: Some myths hide in numbers: "everyone died at 30" is an average pull… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: Some myths hide in numbers: "everyone died at 30" is an average pulled down by the many babies who died. Who acts: myths, everyone, many babies. 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
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# Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 5

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Some myths hide in numbers: "everyone died at 30" is an average pulled down by the many babies who died.

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**Who acts:** myths, everyone, many babies · **What happens:** hide, die, be, pull down · **To what, where:** numbers, 30 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (myths, everyone, many babies), 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:5
# text = Some myths hide in numbers: "everyone died at 30" is an average pulled down by the many babies who died.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	appos	_	_
16	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **hide** | present | some myths |  |  | numbers |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** *in a quote* | past | everyone |  |  | 30 |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | average *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pull down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | past | the many babies |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-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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