--- title: Spices were once so precious that wars were fought over tiny islands… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics description: Spices were once so precious that wars were fought over tiny islands, a boy's clever trick made vanilla cheap, and honey from ancient tombs could still be eaten today. Who acts: Spices, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Food from around the world: how crops…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/) / 5 # Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 5 Spices were once so precious that wars were fought over tiny islands, a boy's clever trick made vanilla cheap, and honey from ancient tombs could still be eaten today. **Who acts:** Spices, boy · **What happens:** be, fight, make, eat, trick · **To what, where:** wars, clever trick 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 (Spices, boy), 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:5 # text = Spices were once so precious that wars were fought over tiny islands, a boy's clever trick made vanilla cheap, and honey from ancient tombs could still be eaten today. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Spices spice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 fought fight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 vanilla vanilla ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 tombs tomb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 32 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Spices | | | | | once, precious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** | past · passive | | wars | | | | over tiny islands | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Co-Agent over island=Theme | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a boy's clever trick *not said here* | | | | cheap *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **eat** | could · passive | Spices *not said here* | | | | still; today | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **trick** | | a boy | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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