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title: Most of the world's goods now travel in standard steel containers, a… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the world's goods now travel in standard steel containers, all one size so cranes, ships, trains and lorries can handle them fast, on huge ships, the biggest of which carry over 20,000 containers. Who acts: Most, cranes, biggest. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» 
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 17

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Most of the world's goods now travel in standard steel containers, all one size so cranes, ships, trains and lorries can handle them fast, on huge ships, the biggest of which carry over 20,000 containers.

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**Who acts:** Most, cranes, biggest · **What happens:** travel, handle, carry over · **To what, where:** standard steel containers, lorries, huge ships, 20,000 containers

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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 (Most, cranes, biggest), 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:17
# text = Most of the world's goods now travel in standard steel containers, all one size so cranes, ships, trains and lorries can handle them fast, on huge ships, the biggest of which carry over 20,000 containers.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	nmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	containers	container	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
18	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lorries	lorry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nmod	_	_
38	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
39	over	over	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	containers	container	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present | Most of the world's goods |  |  | standard steel containers | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in container=Trajectory |
| 2 | **handle** | can | cranes and ships and trains and lorries | lorries *= lorry* |  | huge ships |  | fast *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **carry over** | present | the biggest | 20,000 containers |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=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): 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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