More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 8
In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks were sold in Europe as unicorn horns and were worth more than their weight in gold.
What happens: sell, be · To what, where: narwhal tusks, Middle Ages
This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» of the biology 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ages | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ages | det |
| 3 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ages | compound |
| 4 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 sold | obl |
| 5 | narwhal | narwhal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tusks | compound |
| 6 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sold | aux:pass |
| 8 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Europe | case |
| 10 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 horns | case |
| 12 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horns | compound |
| 13 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sold | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 worth | cc |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 worth | cop |
| 16 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sold | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 worth | obj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 weight | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 weight | nmod:poss |
| 20 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 more | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 weight | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past · passive | narwhal tusks | in the Middle Ages | in Europe; as unicorn horns | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | worth property | 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, 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:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:8.
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, 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.
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