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title: Many English words come from Norse, like sky, egg, knife and Thursda… — The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings · tree and pragmatics
description: Many English words come from Norse, like sky, egg, knife and Thursday, which means Thor's day. Who acts: Many English words, Thursday. 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 cla
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# The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 14

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Many English words come from Norse, like sky, egg, knife and Thursday, which means Thor's day.

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**Who acts:** Many English words, Thursday · **What happens:** come, mean · **To what, where:** Norse

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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 (Many English words, Thursday), 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:14
# text = Many English words come from Norse, like sky, egg, knife and Thursday, which means Thor's day.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Norse	Norse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	Thor	Thor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Many English words |  |  | Norse and sky and egg and knife and Thursday |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from norse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Thursday |  |  |  | day |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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 ×2. **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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