The big language quiz, sentence 9
"They", "sky" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, who settled in England from about 800 AD.
Who acts: biscuit, Vikings · What happens: come, settle · To what, where: Old Norse, England
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» of the language 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 (biscuit, Vikings), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 They | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sky | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sky | punct |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 They | appos |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sky | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 egg | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 egg | punct |
| 10 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sky | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 egg | punct |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Norse | case |
| 14 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Norse | amod |
| 15 | Norse | Norse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 language | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 language | det |
| 18 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Norse | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Vikings | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Vikings | det |
| 21 | Vikings | viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 language | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 settled | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 settled | nsubj |
| 24 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Vikings | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 England | case |
| 26 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 settled | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 800 | case |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 800 | advmod |
| 29 | 800 | 800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 settled | obl |
| 30 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 800 | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | biscuit | Old Norse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from norse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | settle | past | the Vikings | England | from 800 AD | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=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:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:9.
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 ×3. 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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