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title: Your breakfast may be full of travellers: "coffee" and "sugar" came… — Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your breakfast may be full of travellers: "coffee" and "sugar" came from Arabic, "tea" from a Chinese language, and "ketchup" probably started as a Chinese fish sauce. Who acts: breakfast, coffee, ketchup. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and 
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# Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more, sentence 2

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Your breakfast may be full of travellers: "coffee" and "sugar" came from Arabic, "tea" from a Chinese language, and "ketchup" probably started as a Chinese fish sauce.

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**Who acts:** breakfast, coffee, ketchup · **What happens:** be, come, start · **To what, where:** Arabic

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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 (breakfast, coffee, ketchup), 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:2
# text = Your breakfast may be full of travellers: "coffee" and "sugar" came from Arabic, "tea" from a Chinese language, and "ketchup" probably started as a Chinese fish sauce.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	sauce	sauce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | Your breakfast |  |  |  |  | of travellers; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | coffee and sugar |  |  | Arabic |  | from a Chinese language | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | past | ketchup |  |  |  |  | as a Chinese fish sauce; probably *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:2`.

**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 ×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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