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title: The Silk Road was not one road but a network of land routes linking… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics
description: The Silk Road was not one road but a network of land routes linking China with Central Asia, Persia, India and the Mediterranean. Who acts: Silk, network. A sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Silk Road, sentence 10

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The Silk Road was not one road but a network of land routes linking China with Central Asia, Persia, India and the Mediterranean.

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**Who acts:** Silk, network · **What happens:** not be, link · **To what, where:** one road, China

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» 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 (Silk, network), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:028-the-silk-road.lesson:10
# text = The Silk Road was not one road but a network of land routes linking China with Central Asia, Persia, India and the Mediterranean.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 028-the-silk-road.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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det
2	Silk	silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	linking	link	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
15	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **is a** | past | Silk | one road but a network of land routes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **link** | gerund | a network of land routes *not said here* | China |  |  |  | with Central Asia and Persia and the Mediterranean | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent china=Patient with asia=Co-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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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