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title: So when someone says a food is «always» from somewhere, ask: since w… — What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words… · tree and pragmatics
description: So when someone says a food is «always» from somewhere, ask: since when, and who brought it? Who acts: someone, food, you. A sentence of the lesson «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases, sentence 4

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So when someone says a food is «always» from somewhere, ask: since when, and who brought it?

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**Who acts:** someone, food, you · **What happens:** say, be, ask, bring · **To what, where:** food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, food, you), 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:4
# text = So when someone says a food is «always» from somewhere, ask: since when, and who brought it?
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	«	«	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
16	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a food |  |  |  |  | always, « *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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**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, R6-punct-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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