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title: Vikings believed in Odin, Thor with his hammer, Loki the trickster,… — The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings · tree and pragmatics
description: Vikings believed in Odin, Thor with his hammer, Loki the trickster, and Valhalla, the hall of fallen warriors; Marvel's Thor and Loki are very different from the old myths. Who acts: Vikings, Thor. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history course of Mova's primary 
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# The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 18

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Vikings believed in Odin, Thor with his hammer, Loki the trickster, and Valhalla, the hall of fallen warriors; Marvel's Thor and Loki are very different from the old myths.

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**Who acts:** Vikings, Thor · **What happens:** believe, fall, be · **To what, where:** Odin, old myths

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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 (Vikings, Thor), 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:18
# text = Vikings believed in Odin, Thor with his hammer, Loki the trickster, and Valhalla, the hall of fallen warriors; Marvel's Thor and Loki are very different from the old myths.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Vikings	viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Odin	Odin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Thor	Thor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Loki	Loki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trickster	trickster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Valhalla	Valhalla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Marvel	Marvel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	Thor	Thor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Loki	Loki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	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 | **believe** | past | Vikings  Valhalla |  |  | Odin and Thor with Thor's hammer and Loki |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Marvel's Thor and Loki |  |  | the old myths |  | different *property* | 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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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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