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title: The kiwi fruit came from China, where it was called the Chinese goos… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics
description: The kiwi fruit came from China, where it was called the Chinese gooseberry; New Zealand farmers renamed it after their bird, and it has more vitamin C than an orange. Who acts: kiwi fruit, Zealand farmers, fruit. A sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of
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# Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 13

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The kiwi fruit came from China, where it was called the Chinese gooseberry; New Zealand farmers renamed it after their bird, and it has more vitamin C than an orange.

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**Who acts:** kiwi fruit, Zealand farmers, fruit · **What happens:** come, call, rename, have · **To what, where:** China, fruit, more vitamin C · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (kiwi fruit, Zealand farmers, fruit), 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:13
# text = The kiwi fruit came from China, where it was called the Chinese gooseberry; New Zealand farmers renamed it after their bird, and it has more vitamin C than an orange.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gooseberry	gooseberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	renamed	rename	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod
29	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj
30	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | past | the kiwi fruit |  |  | China |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call** | past · passive |  | fruit |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **rename** | past | Zealand farmers | fruit |  |  | after farmers's bird |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | fruit | more vitamin C |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Patient |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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