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title: Today most goods cross the sea in steel boxes all the same size, and… — Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes · tree and pragmatics
description: Today most goods cross the sea in steel boxes all the same size, and one T-shirt may grow in India and be sewn in Bangladesh. Who acts: most goods, one T shirt. A sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 12

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Today most goods cross the sea in steel boxes all the same size, and one T-shirt may grow in India and be sewn in Bangladesh.

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**Who acts:** most goods, one T shirt · **What happens:** cross, grow, sew · **To what, where:** sea, India, Bangladesh

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history 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 goods, one T shirt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:12
# text = Today most goods cross the sea in steel boxes all the same size, and one T-shirt may grow in India and be sewn in Bangladesh.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.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	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cross** | present | most goods | the sea |  |  | today | in steel boxes  all same size | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Patient in box=Topic |
| 2 | **grow** | may | one T shirt |  |  | India |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in india=Location |
| 3 | **sew** | infinitive · passive | one T shirt *not said here* |  |  | Bangladesh |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: in bangladesh=Destination |

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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:history:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:12`.

**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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