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title: It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed h… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed huge numbers of the people already living in the Americas. Who acts: swap, diseases, people. 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
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# Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 3

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It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed huge numbers of the people already living in the Americas.

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**Who acts:** swap, diseases, people · **What happens:** not be, come, kill, live · **To what, where:** good news, huge numbers, Americas

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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 (swap, diseases, people), 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:3
# text = It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed huge numbers of the people already living in the Americas.
# 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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	already	already	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | swap | good news |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | diseases |  |  |  |  | with the ships | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | past | diseases | huge numbers of the people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  | the Americas |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=Location |

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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): no change. **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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