--- title: Napoleon was about average height, the "cake" line has no evidence s… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: Napoleon was about average height, the "cake" line has no evidence she said it, and Cleopatra's family was Greek; the true stories are often stranger and more interesting than the myths. Who acts: Napoleon, cake line, family, true stories. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Napoleon, cake line, family, true stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:3 # text = Napoleon was about average height, the "cake" line has no evidence she said it, and Cleopatra's family was Greek; the true stories are often stranger and more interesting than the myths. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Napoleon Napoleon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 Cleopatra Cleopatra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 stranger strange ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 34 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Napoleon | average height | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | the cake line | no evidence | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Napoleon | evidence | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | Cleopatra's family | | | | | greek *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the true stories | | | | | often, strange *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | the true stories *not said here* | | | | | than the myths | tree rules | 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. **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:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Kings, queens and emperors, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/2/) - next →: [Kings, queens and emperors, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/)