--- title: In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks were sold in Europe as unicorn horn… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks were sold in Europe as unicorn horns and were worth more than their weight in gold. 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 with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/) / 8 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:8 # text = In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks were sold in Europe as unicorn horns and were worth more than their weight in gold. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Ages Age PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 narwhal narwhal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 unicorn unicorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 18 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/7/) - next →: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/)