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title: The game shows the price, not the people: each sugar estate was work… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: The game shows the price, not the people: each sugar estate was worked by enslaved Africans in brutal conditions, and real farms grew many crops, not one. Who acts: game, enslaved Africans, real farms. A sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography course of Mova's pri
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# Food and farming around the world, sentence 7

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The game shows the price, not the people: each sugar estate was worked by enslaved Africans in brutal conditions, and real farms grew many crops, not one.

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**Who acts:** game, enslaved Africans, real farms · **What happens:** show, work, enslave, grow · **To what, where:** price, sugar estate, brutal conditions, many crops

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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 (game, enslaved Africans, real farms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:7
# text = The game shows the price, not the people: each sugar estate was worked by enslaved Africans in brutal conditions, and real farms grew many crops, not one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
24	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **show** | present | the game | the price |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient |
| 2 | **work** | past · passive | enslaved Africans | each sugar estate |  | brutal conditions |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Material |
| 3 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | past | real farms | many crops  one |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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