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title: Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobod… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobody in Europe had tasted chocolate or chilli. Who acts: Italy, Ireland, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 1

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Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobody in Europe had tasted chocolate or chilli.

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**Who acts:** Italy, Ireland, nobody · **What happens:** have, taste · **To what, where:** tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate

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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 (Italy, Ireland, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:1
# text = Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobody in Europe had tasted chocolate or chilli.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson
# annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	chilli	chilli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Italy | no tomatoes |  |  | before 1492 |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomato=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | Ireland | no potatoes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient |
| 3 | **taste** | past · perfect | nobody | chocolate or chilli |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme chocolate=Attribute |

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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.

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**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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