What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases, sentence 5

Tomatoes come from the Americas; they reached Europe in the 1500s, Italians first grew them as curiosities, and tomato sauce became common in Italy only in the 1700s and 1800s.

Who acts: Tomatoes, Italians, tomato sauce · What happens: come, reach, grow, become · To what, where: Americas, Europe, 1500s, tomatoes, 1700s

This is a sentence of the lesson «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» 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 (Tomatoes, Italians, tomato sauce), 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	Tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Americas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Americas	det
5	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 reached	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 1500s	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 1500s	det
12	1500s	1500	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	8 reached	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
14	Italians	italian	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 grew	nsubj
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 grew	advmod
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grew	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 curiosities	case
19	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grew	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 became	cc
22	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sauce	compound
23	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
25	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 became	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Italy	case
27	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 common	obl
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 1700s	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 1700s	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 1700s	det
31	1700s	1700	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	24 became	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 1800s	cc
33	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	31 1700s	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Tomatoes		the Americas		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from americas=Initial_Location
2	reach	past	tomatoes = tomato	Europe	the 1500s		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme
3	grow	past	Italians	tomatoes = tomato		as curiosities; first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
4	become	past	tomato sauce			in the 1700s and 1800s result; common property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1700=Result

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:071-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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