--- title: In 1956 Malcom McLean started using standard shipping containers; to… — Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes · tree and pragmatics description: In 1956 Malcom McLean started using standard shipping containers; today about four in five tonnes of world trade go by sea. Who acts: Malcom, four five tonnes. 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 depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Trade: why people swap, and the great…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/) / 23 # Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 23 In 1956 Malcom McLean started using standard shipping containers; today about four in five tonnes of world trade go by sea. **Who acts:** Malcom, four five tonnes · **What happens:** start, use, go · **To what, where:** 1956, standard shipping containers 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 (Malcom, four five tonnes), 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:23 # text = In 1956 Malcom McLean started using standard shipping containers; today about four in five tonnes of world trade go by sea. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1956 1956 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 Malcom Malcom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 McLean McLean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 shipping shipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 containers container NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | Malcom | | | 1956 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **use** | gerund | Malcom *not said here* | standard shipping containers | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=Patient | | 3 | **go** | present | four five tonnes of world trade | | | | today | by sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | 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. **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:23`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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