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title: "Sky", "skin", "skull" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language o… — Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sky", "skin", "skull" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, who settled in England from about 800 AD; a word starting with sk- is often Norse. Who acts: Sky, Vikings, word. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin» of the language course of Mova's prim
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# Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin, sentence 6

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"Sky", "skin", "skull" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, who settled in England from about 800 AD; a word starting with sk- is often Norse.

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**Who acts:** Sky, Vikings, word · **What happens:** come, settle, start, be · **To what, where:** Old Norse, England

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin» of the language 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 (Sky, Vikings, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.lesson:6
# text = "Sky", "skin", "skull" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, who settled in England from about 800 AD; a word starting with sk- is often Norse.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Norse	Norse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Vikings	viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
34	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:unmarked	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
38	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	sk	sk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	often	often	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	Norse	norse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **come** | past | Sky |  |  | Old Norse |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from norse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **settle** | past | the Vikings |  |  | England |  | from 800  AD | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |
| 3 | **start** | gerund | a word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sk | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sk=Subeventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present | a word |  |  |  |  | norse, often *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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**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:language:023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.lesson:6`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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