Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 5
Spices were dear in medieval Europe but not usually worth as much as gold.
Who acts: Spices · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: medieval Europe
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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 (Spices), 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 | 3 dear | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dear | cop |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 5 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Europe | amod |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dear | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 worth | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 worth | advmod |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 worth | advmod |
| 10 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dear | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 worth | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 much | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Spices | medieval Europe | dear property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not be | Spices not said here | usually property | tree rules |
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:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.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): 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.
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