--- title: "They", "sky" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vik… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: "They", "sky" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, who settled in England from about 800 AD. Who acts: biscuit, Vikings. A sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [The big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / 9 # The big language quiz, sentence 9 "They", "sky" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, who settled in England from about 800 AD. **Who acts:** biscuit, Vikings · **What happens:** come, settle · **To what, where:** Old Norse, England This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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 (biscuit, Vikings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:9 # text = "They", "sky" and "egg" came from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, who settled in England from about 800 AD. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.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 ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 6 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Norse Norse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Vikings viking PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 settled settle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 30 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:unmarked _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | biscuit | | | 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 | 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. **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:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The big language quiz, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/8/) - next →: [The big language quiz, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/)