--- title: Silver from Potosí in Bolivia and from Mexico flowed to Europe and a… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics description: Silver from Potosí in Bolivia and from Mexico flowed to Europe and across the Pacific to China in the 1500s to 1700s, because China wanted silver and paid for it with silk, tea and porcelain. Who acts: Silver, China. 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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 (Silver, China), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:15 # text = Silver from Potosí in Bolivia and from Mexico flowed to Europe and across the Pacific to China in the 1500s to 1700s, because China wanted silver and paid for it with silk, tea and porcelain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Potosí Potosí PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Bolivia Bolivia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 flowed flow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 across across ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 1500s 1500 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1700s 1700 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 27 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 porcelain porcelain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=35:conj 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flow** | past | Silver from Potosí in Bolivia and Mexico | | Europe and the Pacific | the 1500s to 1700s | | to China | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1500=Location | | 2 | **want** | past | China | silver | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot silver=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | past | China *not said here* | | | | | for silver; with silk and tea and porcelain | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | 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:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:15`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Resources and what countries trade, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/14/) - next →: [Resources and what countries trade, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/)