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title: The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul was started in the 1450s and is one of… — Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes · tree and pragmatics
description: The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul was started in the 1450s and is one of the oldest and biggest covered markets in the world. A sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 20

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The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul was started in the 1450s and is one of the oldest and biggest covered markets in the world.

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**What happens:** start, be, cover · **To what, where:** Grand Bazaar, 1450s, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:20
# text = The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul was started in the 1450s and is one of the oldest and biggest covered markets in the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bazaar	bazaar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	1450s	1450	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **start** | past · passive |  | the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul |  | the 1450s |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  |  | of oldest and the covered markets in the world | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:20`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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