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title: The best answer is evidence from the time itself: a real helmet in a… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: The best answer is evidence from the time itself: a real helmet in a museum, a king's round golden orb in a painting, a modern person running in real armour. Who acts: best answer, modern person. A sentence of the lesson «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths course of Mova's primary sc
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# Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 7

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The best answer is evidence from the time itself: a real helmet in a museum, a king's round golden orb in a painting, a modern person running in real armour.

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**Who acts:** best answer, modern person · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** evidence, real armour

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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 (best answer, modern person), 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:7
# text = The best answer is evidence from the time itself: a real helmet in a museum, a king's round golden orb in a painting, a modern person running in real armour.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	orb	orb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
31	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | the best answer | evidence |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | a modern person *not said here* |  |  | real armour |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Trajectory |

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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.

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

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