--- title: Long ago they came from far away and were worth a fortune. — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago they came from far away and were worth a fortune. Who acts: spices. A sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/7/) [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/) / [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/) / 7 # Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 7 Long ago they came from far away and were worth a fortune. **Who acts:** spices · **What happens:** come, be This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:7 # text = Long ago they came from far away and were worth a fortune. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.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 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | spices *= spice* | | | | | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from away=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | past | spices *= spice* *not said here* | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | 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:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/6/) - next →: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/)