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title: In the Salem witch trials of 1692 nineteen people were hanged and on… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Salem witch trials of 1692 nineteen people were hanged and one man was crushed with stones; nobody was burned there. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 11

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In the Salem witch trials of 1692 nineteen people were hanged and one man was crushed with stones; nobody was burned there.

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**What happens:** hang, crush, burn · **To what, where:** nineteen people, Salem witch trials, one man, nobody

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:11
# text = In the Salem witch trials of 1692 nineteen people were hanged and one man was crushed with stones; nobody was burned there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Salem	Salem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1692	1692	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	hanged	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **hang** | past · passive |  | nineteen people |  | the Salem witch trials of 1692 |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in trial=Destination |
| 2 | **crush** | past · passive |  | one man |  |  |  | with stones | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with stone=Instrument |
| 3 | **burn** | past · passive |  | nobody |  | there |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:11`.

**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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