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title: Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, fro… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics
description: Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region. Who acts: diamonds. A sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 11

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Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.

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**Who acts:** diamonds · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** India

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (diamonds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:11
# text = Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.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	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1700s	1700	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Golconda	Golconda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **come** | past | the world's diamonds |  |  | India | until the 1700s | from the Golconda region | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from india=Initial\_Location from region=Destination |

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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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:11`.

**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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