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title: Paper was made in China by about 100 CE; it reached Samarkand around… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics
description: Paper was made in China by about 100 CE; it reached Samarkand around 751, Baghdad around 794, Spain in the 1100s and later the rest of Europe. Who acts: 100 CE, paper. A sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» of the history course of Mova's primary school
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# Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 7

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Paper was made in China by about 100 CE; it reached Samarkand around 751, Baghdad around 794, Spain in the 1100s and later the rest of Europe.

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**Who acts:** 100 CE, paper · **What happens:** make, reach · **To what, where:** Paper, China, Samarkand, 1100s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 (100 CE, paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:7
# text = Paper was made in China by about 100 CE; it reached Samarkand around 751, Baghdad around 794, Spain in the 1100s and later the rest of Europe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	CE	ce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	751	751	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	list	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	794	794	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	list	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	1100s	1100	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | past · passive | 100 CE | Paper |  | China |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **reach** | past | paper | Samarkand  Baghdad  Spain |  | the 1100s |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent samarkand=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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:7`.

**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): R7-rel-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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