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description: Islam spread to Indonesia mostly through traders and teachers from the 1200s onwards, and Indonesia now has more Muslims than any other country; Buddhism also travelled from India to China and Japan along trade routes. Who acts: Islam, Indonesia, Buddhism. A sentence of the lesson «What trade carrie
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# What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases, sentence 15

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Islam spread to Indonesia mostly through traders and teachers from the 1200s onwards, and Indonesia now has more Muslims than any other country; Buddhism also travelled from India to China and Japan along trade routes.

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**Who acts:** Islam, Indonesia, Buddhism · **What happens:** spread, have, travel · **To what, where:** Indonesia, traders, more Muslims, China, India

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» 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 (Islam, Indonesia, Buddhism), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:071-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases.lesson:15
# text = Islam spread to Indonesia mostly through traders and teachers from the 1200s onwards, and Indonesia now has more Muslims than any other country; Buddhism also travelled from India to China and Japan along trade routes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 071-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases.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 ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	1200s	1200	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
13	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
16	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
20	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc
34	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	along	along	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **spread** | past | Islam |  | Indonesia | traders from the 1200s and teachers |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through trader=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | Indonesia | more Muslims |  |  | now | than any other country | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muslim=Patient |
| 3 | **travel** | past | Buddhism |  | China and Japan | India |  | along trade routes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to china=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:history:071-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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