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title: Places that hold rare resources become important, and sometimes the… — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Places that hold rare resources become important, and sometimes the targets of greed. Who acts: Places. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Resources and what countries trade, sentence 3

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Places that hold rare resources become important, and sometimes the targets of greed.

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**Who acts:** Places · **What happens:** hold, become, target · **To what, where:** rare resources, greed

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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 (Places), 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:3
# text = Places that hold rare resources become important, and sometimes the targets of greed.
# 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): no change
1	Places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	targets	target	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hold** | present | Places | rare resources |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | present | Places |  |  |  |  | important *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **target** |  |  | greed |  |  |  |  | nom target «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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