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title: The Middle Ages are the thousand years in Europe between the fall of… — The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings · tree and pragmatics
description: The Middle Ages are the thousand years in Europe between the fall of Rome, around 500, and around 1500. Who acts: Middle Ages. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 0

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The Middle Ages are the thousand years in Europe between the fall of Rome, around 500, and around 1500.

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**Who acts:** Middle Ages · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** thousand years, Europe

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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 (Middle Ages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.lesson:0
# text = The Middle Ages are the thousand years in Europe between the fall of Rome, around 500, and around 1500.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	_	3	flat	_	_
3	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Middle Ages | the thousand years |  | Europe  500 |  | between the fall of Rome | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:history:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.lesson:0`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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