Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 15
In the Columbian Exchange horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, while potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chocolate came to Europe.
Who acts: cows, horses, potatoes · What happens: horse, go, come · To what, where: Columbian Exchange, Europe
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history 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 (cows, horses, potatoes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Exchange | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Exchange | det |
| 3 | Columbian | Columbian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Exchange | compound |
| 4 | Exchange | Exchange | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horses | punct |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 horses | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wheat | cc |
| 9 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cows | conj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Americas | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Americas | det |
| 13 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 16 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 maize | punct |
| 18 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 potatoes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tomatoes | punct |
| 20 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 potatoes | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chocolate | cc |
| 22 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 potatoes | conj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Europe | case |
| 25 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horse | cows and wheat | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | horses | the Columbian Exchange | to the Americas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | potatoes and maize and tomatoes and chocolate | Europe | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial_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:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:15.
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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