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title: The Potosí mine was worked under the Spanish mita forced-labour syst… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: The Potosí mine was worked under the Spanish mita forced-labour system, in which many Indigenous Andean workers died. Who acts: many Indigenous Andean workers. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 16

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The Potosí mine was worked under the Spanish mita forced-labour system, in which many Indigenous Andean workers died.

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**Who acts:** many Indigenous Andean workers · **What happens:** work, force, die · **To what, where:** Potosí mine, Spanish mita labour system

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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 (many Indigenous Andean workers), 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:16
# text = The Potosí mine was worked under the Spanish mita forced-labour system, in which many Indigenous Andean workers died.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Potosí	Potosí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	mita	mita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
10	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
19	Andean	andean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **work** | past · passive |  | the Potosí mine |  | the Spanish mita labour system |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 2 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past | many Indigenous Andean workers |  |  |  |  | in the Spanish mita labour system | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in which=Attribute |

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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:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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