--- title: Goods crossed the deserts of Central Asia in caravans of Bactrian ca… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: Goods crossed the deserts of Central Asia in caravans of Bactrian camels, which have two humps, go a long time without water and survive cold winters. Who acts: Goods, Bactrian camels. A sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The Silk Road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/) / 13 # The Silk Road, sentence 13 Goods crossed the deserts of Central Asia in caravans of Bactrian camels, which have two humps, go a long time without water and survive cold winters. **Who acts:** Goods, Bactrian camels · **What happens:** cross, have, go, survive · **To what, where:** deserts, two humps 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 (Goods, Bactrian camels), 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:13 # text = Goods crossed the deserts of Central Asia in caravans of Bactrian camels, which have two humps, go a long time without water and survive cold winters. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Central Central PROPN NNP _ 7 compound _ _ 7 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 caravans caravan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 Bactrian bactrian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 humps hump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 19 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 23 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 27 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 winters winter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | past | Goods | the deserts of Central Asia | | | | in caravans of Bactrian camels | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent desert=Patient in caravan=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | Bactrian camels | two humps | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient | | 3 | **go** | present | Bactrian camels *not said here* | | | | time | without water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **survive** | present | Bactrian camels *not said here* | | | | winter | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:028-the-silk-road.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): R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [The Silk Road, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/12/) - next →: [The Silk Road, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/)