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title: Pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves came from Asia and far islands;… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves came from Asia and far islands; sailors risked their lives for them, and wars were fought over tiny nutmeg islands. Who acts: Pepper, sailors. A sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 14

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Pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves came from Asia and far islands; sailors risked their lives for them, and wars were fought over tiny nutmeg islands.

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**Who acts:** Pepper, sailors · **What happens:** come, risk, fight · **To what, where:** Asia, lives, wars

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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 (Pepper, sailors), 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:14
# text = Pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves came from Asia and far islands; sailors risked their lives for them, and wars were fought over tiny nutmeg islands.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	nutmeg	nutmeg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cloves	clove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	risked	risk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	nutmeg	nutmeg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | Pepper and cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves |  |  | Asia and far islands |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from asia=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **risk** | past | sailors | sailors's lives |  |  |  | for Pepper | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot |
| 3 | **fight** | past · passive |  | wars |  |  |  | over tiny nutmeg islands | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Co-Agent over island=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:14`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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