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title: Quinine, from the bark of the cinchona tree, was known to Andean peo… — What was lost and what was gained: languages, fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Quinine, from the bark of the cinchona tree, was known to Andean peoples and became the main medicine for malaria for centuries; maize, potatoes and rubber also came from Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Who acts: maize. A sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, food
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# What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge, sentence 11

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Quinine, from the bark of the cinchona tree, was known to Andean peoples and became the main medicine for malaria for centuries; maize, potatoes and rubber also came from Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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**Who acts:** maize · **What happens:** know, become, come · **To what, where:** Quinine, main medicine

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» 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 (maize), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:11
# text = Quinine, from the bark of the cinchona tree, was known to Andean peoples and became the main medicine for malaria for centuries; maize, potatoes and rubber also came from Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Quinine	quinine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cinchona	cinchona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Andean	andean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	malaria	malaria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
35	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **know** | past · passive |  | Quinine |  |  |  | to Andean peoples | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | past |  | the main medicine for malaria |  |  | century |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | maize and potatoes and rubber |  |  |  |  | from Indigenous peoples of the Americas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from people=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:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:11`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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