--- title: After Columbus, horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, and pot… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics description: After Columbus, horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, and potatoes and maize went to Europe and Africa; diseases crossed too and killed many people in the Americas. Who acts: horses, potatoes, diseases. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, potatoes, diseases), 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:7 # text = After Columbus, horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, and potatoes and maize went to Europe and Africa; diseases crossed too and killed many people 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): R5-strong ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | horses and cows and wheat | | | the Americas | after Columbus | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **go** | past | potatoes and maize | | | Europe and Africa | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **cross** | past | diseases | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | past | diseases *not said here* | many people | | the Americas | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×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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