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title: After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics
description: After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange. Who acts: Columbus, plants. 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 dependenc
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# Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 2

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After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange.

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**Who acts:** Columbus, plants · **What happens:** cross, sail, call · **To what, where:** Atlantic, ways, swap · **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 (Columbus, plants), 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:2
# text = After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange.
# 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 ×2
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Columbian	Columbian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **cross** | past | Columbus | the Atlantic |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atlantic=Patient |
| 2 | **sail** | past | plants and animals | both ways |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | this swap |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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): R7-rel-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.

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

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