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title: Words travel with people, ships, trade and food; when English speake… — Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Words travel with people, ships, trade and food; when English speakers met people from India, the Arab world, China, Japan and Ukraine, they came home with new words. Who acts: Words, English speakers, speakers. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainia
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# Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more, sentence 0

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Words travel with people, ships, trade and food; when English speakers met people from India, the Arab world, China, Japan and Ukraine, they came home with new words.

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**Who acts:** Words, English speakers, speakers · **What happens:** travel, meet, come · **To what, where:** people, India

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more» of the language 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 (Words, English speakers, speakers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:024-borrowed-words-from-far-away.lesson:0
# text = Words travel with people, ships, trade and food; when English speakers met people from India, the Arab world, China, Japan and Ukraine, they came home with new words.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 024-borrowed-words-from-far-away.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **travel** | present | Words |  |  |  |  | with people and ships and trade and food | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | English speakers | people |  | India and the Arab world and China and Japan and Ukraine |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | speakers *= speaker* |  |  |  |  | with new words; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:language:024-borrowed-words-from-far-away.lesson:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-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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