Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 3
It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed huge numbers of the people already living in the Americas.
Who acts: swap, diseases, people · What happens: not be, come, kill, live · To what, where: good news, huge numbers, Americas
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 (swap, diseases, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 news | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 news | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 news | advmod |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 ships | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ships | det |
| 10 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obl |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 news | parataxis |
| 12 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 killed | nsubj |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 diseases | acl:relcl |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 numbers | amod |
| 16 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 killed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 numbers | nmod |
| 20 | already | already | ADV | _ | 21 living | advmod |
| 21 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 people | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Americas | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Americas | det |
| 24 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 living | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | swap | good news | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | diseases | with the ships | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | diseases | huge numbers of the people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | gerund | the people not said here | the Americas | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=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, 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:3.
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): no change. 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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