--- title: Farmers always chose the calmest worms that made the best silk, gene… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: Farmers always chose the calmest worms that made the best silk, generation after generation, until the silk moth could no longer live without people: it cannot fly properly and is not found anywhere in the wild. Who acts: Farmers, calmest worms, silk moth, moth. 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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 (Farmers, calmest worms, silk moth, moth), 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:2 # text = Farmers always chose the calmest worms that made the best silk, generation after generation, until the silk moth could no longer live without people: it cannot fly properly and is not found anywhere in the wild. # 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): no change 1 Farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 calmest calm ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 no no ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 25 without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 32 properly properly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 37 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | past | Farmers | the calmest worms | | | | always *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | the calmest worms | the best silk and generation after generation | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silk=Product | | 3 | **live** | could | the silk moth | | | | | without people; long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **fly** | can | moth | | | | | properly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **find** | present · passive | moth *not said here* | | | | | anywhere *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» | 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:2`. **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. 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