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title: Along the Silk Road travelled not only goods but also ideas, religio… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics
description: Along the Silk Road travelled not only goods but also ideas, religions and inventions. Who acts: goods. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 9

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Along the Silk Road travelled not only goods but also ideas, religions and inventions.

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**Who acts:** goods · **What happens:** travel · **To what, where:** Silk Road

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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 (goods), 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:9
# text = Along the Silk Road travelled not only goods but also ideas, religions and inventions.
# 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
1	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	inventions	invention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **travel** | past | goods but ideas and religions and inventions |  |  | the Silk Road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |

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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:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.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): R1-cc-next ×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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