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title: Napoleon was about 1.69 metres tall, an ordinary or even slightly ta… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics
description: Napoleon was about 1.69 metres tall, an ordinary or even slightly tall height for a Frenchman of his time. Who acts: Napoleon. A sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 5

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Napoleon was about 1.69 metres tall, an ordinary or even slightly tall height for a Frenchman of his time.

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**Who acts:** Napoleon · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» 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 (Napoleon), 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:5
# text = Napoleon was about 1.69 metres tall, an ordinary or even slightly tall height for a Frenchman of his time.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	1.69	1.69	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | past | Napoleon |  |  |  |  | 1.69 metres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules |

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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:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): 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/).

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