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title: Britain cannot grow bananas outdoors, and Ecuador does not build man… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Britain cannot grow bananas outdoors, and Ecuador does not build many jet engines, so each sells what it is good at and buys the rest. Who acts: Britain, Ecuador, each, it. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 0

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Britain cannot grow bananas outdoors, and Ecuador does not build many jet engines, so each sells what it is good at and buys the rest.

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**Who acts:** Britain, Ecuador, each, it · **What happens:** not grow, not build, sell, be, buy · **To what, where:** bananas, many jet engines, rest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» 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 (Britain, Ecuador, each, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:0
# text = Britain cannot grow bananas outdoors, and Ecuador does not build many jet engines, so each sells what it is good at and buys the rest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
19	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **grow** | can | Britain | bananas |  |  |  | outdoors *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location banana=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **build** | present · do-support | Ecuador | many jet engines |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Product |
| 3 | **sell** | present | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **buy** | present | each *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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:geography:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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