Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 5

Spices were once so precious that wars were fought over tiny islands, a boy's clever trick made vanilla cheap, and honey from ancient tombs could still be eaten today.

Who acts: Spices, boy · What happens: be, fight, make, eat, trick · To what, where: wars, clever trick

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 (Spices, boy), 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	Spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 precious	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 precious	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 precious	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 precious	advmod
5	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fought	mark
7	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fought	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fought	aux:pass
9	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 precious	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 islands	case
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 islands	amod
12	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trick	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trick	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 boy	case
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trick	amod
18	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 precious	conj
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 trick	acl
20	vanilla	vanilla	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cheap	amod
21	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 made	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 honey	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 honey	cc
24	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 precious	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 tombs	case
26	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tombs	amod
27	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 honey	nmod
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 eaten	aux
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 eaten	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 eaten	aux:pass
31	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 precious	conj
32	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eaten	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 precious	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Spices			once, precious property	tree rules
2	fight	past · passive		wars		over tiny islands	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Co-Agent over island=Theme
3	make	participle		a boy's clever trick not said here		cheap property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	eat	could · passive	Spices not said here		still; today		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
5	trick		a boy				nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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