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title: In the Columbian Exchange horses, cows and wheat went to the America… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Columbian Exchange horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, while potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chocolate came to Europe. Who acts: cows, horses, potatoes. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 15

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In the Columbian Exchange horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, while potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chocolate came to Europe.

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**Who acts:** cows, horses, potatoes · **What happens:** horse, go, come · **To what, where:** Columbian Exchange, Europe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» 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 (cows, horses, potatoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:15
# text = In the Columbian Exchange horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, while potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chocolate came to Europe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Columbian	Columbian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Exchange	Exchange	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **horse** |  | cows and wheat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | horses |  |  | the Columbian Exchange |  | to the Americas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | potatoes and maize and tomatoes and chocolate |  |  | Europe |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial\_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:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:15`.

**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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