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title: Vikings did not wear horned helmets in battle; the horns come from c… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Vikings did not wear horned helmets in battle; the horns come from costumes made for an opera in 1876. Who acts: Vikings, horns. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 18

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Vikings did not wear horned helmets in battle; the horns come from costumes made for an opera in 1876.

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**Who acts:** Vikings, horns · **What happens:** not wear, horn, come, make · **To what, where:** horned helmets, battle, costumes, 1876

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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, horns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:18
# text = Vikings did not wear horned helmets in battle; the horns come from costumes made for an opera in 1876.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.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 ×1
1	Vikings	viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	horned	horn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	costumes	costume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	opera	opera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1876	1876	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **not** **wear** | past · do-support | Vikings | horned helmets |  | battle |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
| 2 | **horn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | the horns |  |  | costumes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from costume=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | costumes *not said here* |  | 1876 |  | for a opera | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for opera=Asset |

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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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:18`.

**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 ×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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