Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 18
Vikings did not wear horned helmets in battle; the horns come from costumes made for an opera in 1876.
Who acts: Vikings, horns · What happens: not wear, horn, come, make · To what, where: horned helmets, battle, costumes, 1876
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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, horns), 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 | horn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 helmets | amod |
| 6 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 battle | case |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horns | det |
| 11 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 costumes | case |
| 14 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 costumes | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 opera | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 opera | det |
| 18 | opera | opera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1876 | case |
| 20 | 1876 | 1876 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 made | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wear | past · do-support | Vikings | horned helmets | battle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | |||
| 2 | horn | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | the horns | costumes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from costume=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | costumes not said here | 1876 | for a opera | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for opera=Asset |
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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:18.
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, 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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