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title: The road carried more than silk: horses, paper, glass and spices, an… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics
description: The road carried more than silk: horses, paper, glass and spices, and also ideas such as Buddhism going to China and papermaking going west. Who acts: road, Buddhism. A sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Silk Road, sentence 5

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The road carried more than silk: horses, paper, glass and spices, and also ideas such as Buddhism going to China and papermaking going west.

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**Who acts:** road, Buddhism · **What happens:** carry, go · **To what, where:** more, ideas, 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 (road, Buddhism), 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:5
# text = The road carried more than silk: horses, paper, glass and spices, and also ideas such as Buddhism going to China and papermaking going west.
# 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 ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	papermaking	papermaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl
28	west	west	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **carry** | past | the road | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme more=Beneficiary silk=Value |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | Buddhism | ideas *not said here* | China and papermaking |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | Buddhism *not said here* |  |  |  |  | west *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:5`.

**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 ×3. **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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