--- title: Traders travelled in caravans of camels, which can go a long time wi… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics description: Traders travelled in caravans of camels, which can go a long time without drinking, across the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts, resting in oasis towns. Who acts: Traders, camels. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/10/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/) / 10 # Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 10 Traders travelled in caravans of camels, which can go a long time without drinking, across the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts, resting in oasis towns. **Who acts:** Traders, camels · **What happens:** travel, go, drink, rest · **To what, where:** caravans, Gobi deserts, oasis towns This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history 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 (Traders, camels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:10 # text = Traders travelled in caravans of camels, which can go a long time without drinking, across the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts, resting in oasis towns. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 caravans caravan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 across across ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 Gobi Gobi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 Taklamakan Taklamakan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 oasis oasis NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **travel** | past | Traders | | | caravans of camels | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in caravan=Trajectory | | 2 | **go** | can | camels | | | the Gobi deserts | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across desert=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **drink** | gerund | camels *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rest** | gerund | Traders *not said here* | | | oasis towns | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | 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:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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