Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 7
After Columbus, horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, and potatoes and maize went to Europe and Africa; diseases crossed too and killed many people in the Americas.
Who acts: horses, potatoes, diseases · What happens: go, cross, kill · To what, where: Americas, Europe, many people
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 (horses, potatoes, diseases), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 Columbus | case |
| 2 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Columbus | punct |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cows | punct |
| 6 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 horses | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wheat | cc |
| 8 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | conj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Americas | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Americas | det |
| 12 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 15 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 maize | cc |
| 17 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 potatoes | conj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Europe | case |
| 20 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Africa | cc |
| 22 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Europe | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 crossed | punct |
| 24 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 crossed | nsubj |
| 25 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | parataxis |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 crossed | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 killed | cc |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 crossed | conj |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 killed | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Americas | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Americas | det |
| 33 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 people | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | horses and cows and wheat | the Americas | after Columbus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | potatoes and maize | Europe and Africa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cross | past | diseases | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | past | diseases not said here | many people | the Americas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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:7.
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. 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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