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title: Farmers who grow crops like cocoa and coffee often earn very little… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Farmers who grow crops like cocoa and coffee often earn very little of the price paid in shops, because most of it goes to traders, factories, brands and shops. Who acts: Farmers, most. A sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 21

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Farmers who grow crops like cocoa and coffee often earn very little of the price paid in shops, because most of it goes to traders, factories, brands and shops.

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**Who acts:** Farmers, most · **What happens:** grow, earn, pay, go · **To what, where:** crops, little, price, shops, traders

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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 (Farmers, most), 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:21
# text = Farmers who grow crops like cocoa and coffee often earn very little of the price paid in shops, because most of it goes to traders, factories, brands and shops.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	brands	brand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Farmers | crops |  |  |  | like cocoa and coffee | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=Theme |
| 2 | **earn** | present | Farmers | little of the price |  |  |  | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | participle |  | the price *not said here* |  | shops |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | present | most of price |  |  | traders and factories and brands and shops |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to trader=Initial\_Location |

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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:21`.

**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): 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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