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title: The potato was first farmed in the Andes of South America and became… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: The potato was first farmed in the Andes of South America and became a staple food in Europe, from Ireland to Russia, by the 1700s and 1800s. A sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Food and farming around the world, sentence 13

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The potato was first farmed in the Andes of South America and became a staple food in Europe, from Ireland to Russia, by the 1700s and 1800s.

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**What happens:** farm, become · **To what, where:** potato, Andes, staple food, Ireland

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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: 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:13
# text = The potato was first farmed in the Andes of South America and became a staple food in Europe, from Ireland to Russia, by the 1700s and 1800s.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	farmed	farm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	1700s	1700	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **farm** | past · passive |  | the potato |  | the Andes of South America |  | first *property* | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past |  | a staple food in Europe |  | Ireland to Russia |  | by the 1700s and 1800s | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:13`.

**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/).

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