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title: Food is a great clue: potatoes, tomatoes, maize and chocolate came f… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Food is a great clue: potatoes, tomatoes, maize and chocolate came from the Americas, so a Roman or a Viking eating them is wrong, and tea only reached Europe in the 1600s. Who acts: Food, potatoes, Viking, tea. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of M
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# Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 6

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Food is a great clue: potatoes, tomatoes, maize and chocolate came from the Americas, so a Roman or a Viking eating them is wrong, and tea only reached Europe in the 1600s.

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**Who acts:** Food, potatoes, Viking, tea · **What happens:** be, come, eat, reach · **To what, where:** great clue, Americas, maize, Europe, 1600s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 (Food, potatoes, Viking, tea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:6
# text = Food is a great clue: potatoes, tomatoes, maize and chocolate came from the Americas, so a Roman or a Viking eating them is wrong, and tea only reached Europe in the 1600s.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
11	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Viking	viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	1600s	1600	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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 | **is a** | present | Food | a great clue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | potatoes and tomatoes |  |  | the Americas |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from americas=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | a Viking *not said here* | maize |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | potatoes and tomatoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **reach** | past | tea | Europe |  | the 1600s |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:6`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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