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title: It carried disease too: the Black Death is thought to have spread we… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics
description: It carried disease too: the Black Death is thought to have spread west along trade routes in the 1340s. Who acts: road. 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 clause.
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# The Silk Road, sentence 6

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It carried disease too: the Black Death is thought to have spread west along trade routes in the 1340s.

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**Who acts:** road · **What happens:** carry, think, spread · **To what, where:** disease, Black Death, 1340s

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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), 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:6
# text = It carried disease too: the Black Death is thought to have spread west along trade routes in the 1340s.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Death	death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	xcomp	_	_
14	west	west	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	1340s	1340	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | road | disease |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the Black Death |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | the 1340s |  | along trade routes; west *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along route=Location |

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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:6`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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