--- title: For a long time making silk was a secret, and carrying silkworm eggs… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: For a long time making silk was a secret, and carrying silkworm eggs out of China was forbidden. Who acts: making, carrying. A sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/14/) [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/) / [Silkworms and goldfish: two animals Ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/) / 14 # Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 14 For a long time making silk was a secret, and carrying silkworm eggs out of China was forbidden. **Who acts:** making, carrying · **What happens:** making, be, carry out, forbid · **To what, where:** silk, secret, silkworm eggs This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (making, carrying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:14 # text = For a long time making silk was a secret, and carrying silkworm eggs out of China was forbidden. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 making making VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 6 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj _ _ 13 silkworm silkworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 forbidden forbid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **making** | gerund | | silk | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | making | a secret | | | time | | tree rules | | 3 | **carry out** | gerund | | silkworm eggs | | | | of China; out *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Eventuality | | 4 | **forbid** | past · passive | carrying | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING» | 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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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