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title: Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, n… — The spice trade and the Indian Ocean · tree and pragmatics
description: Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, now part of Indonesia. Who acts: Cloves. A sentence of the lesson «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, sentence 9

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Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, now part of Indonesia.

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**Who acts:** Cloves · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** few tiny islands

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» 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 (Cloves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.lesson:9
# text = Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, now part of Indonesia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.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): no change
1	Cloves	clove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	nutmeg	nutmeg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Moluccas	Moluccas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **grow** | past | Cloves and nutmeg |  |  | a few tiny islands in the Moluccas |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=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:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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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