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title: Countries trade because none can make everything well, so each sells… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Countries trade because none can make everything well, so each sells what it is good at producing and buys the rest. Who acts: Countries, none, each, oil. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 11

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Countries trade because none can make everything well, so each sells what it is good at producing and buys the rest.

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**Who acts:** Countries, none, each, oil · **What happens:** trade, make, sell, be, produce, buy · **To what, where:** everything, 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 (Countries, none, each, oil), 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:11
# text = Countries trade because none can make everything well, so each sells what it is good at producing 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trade	trade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
12	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	producing	produce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **trade** | present | Countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | can | none | everything |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
| 3 | **sell** | present | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | oil |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **produce** | gerund | oil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Result |
| 6 | **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:11`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-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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