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title: Potatoes, maize, tomatoes, chillies and cocoa came from the Americas… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Potatoes, maize, tomatoes, chillies and cocoa came from the Americas, while wheat, horses, cattle and sugar cane went there; there had been no horses in the Americas before. Who acts: Potatoes, wheat, horses. A sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography course of Mov
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# Food and farming around the world, sentence 12

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Potatoes, maize, tomatoes, chillies and cocoa came from the Americas, while wheat, horses, cattle and sugar cane went there; there had been no horses in the Americas before.

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**Who acts:** Potatoes, wheat, horses · **What happens:** come, go, be · **To what, where:** Americas

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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 (Potatoes, wheat, horses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:12
# text = Potatoes, maize, tomatoes, chillies and cocoa came from the Americas, while wheat, horses, cattle and sugar cane went there; there had been no horses in the Americas before.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.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	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	chillies	chilli	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
16	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Potatoes and maize and tomatoes and chillies |  |  | the Americas |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from americas=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | wheat and horses and cattle and sugar cane |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past · perfect | no horses in the Americas |  |  | there |  | before *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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