The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 10
Vikings did not wear horned helmets; that idea came from costumes in a 19th-century opera.
Who acts: Vikings, idea · What happens: not wear, come · To what, where: horned helmets, costumes
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history 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 (Vikings, idea), 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 | Vikings | viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wear | advmod |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 helmets | amod |
| 6 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 costumes | case |
| 12 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 opera | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 opera | det |
| 15 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 17 century | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 19th | punct |
| 17 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opera | compound |
| 18 | opera | opera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wear | past · do-support | Vikings | horned helmets | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | that idea | costumes | in a century opera | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from costume=Initial_Location |
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:history:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.lesson:10.
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.
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