Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 2
After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange.
Who acts: Columbus, plants · What happens: cross, sail, call · To what, where: Atlantic, ways, swap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology 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 (Columbus, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 crossed | mark |
| 2 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sailed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Atlantic | det |
| 5 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sailed | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 animals | cc |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plants | conj |
| 10 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 ways | det |
| 12 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sailed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 swap | det |
| 16 | swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sailed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 exchange | det |
| 20 | Columbian | Columbian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 exchange | compound |
| 21 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Columbus | the Atlantic | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atlantic=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sail | past | plants and animals | both ways | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | this swap | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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, 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:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:2.
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 ×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.
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