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title: By some estimates China and India together made about half of the wo… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: By some estimates China and India together made about half of the world's goods around 1700; Europe pulled ahead in the 1800s. Who acts: China, Europe. A sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Why some places grew rich, sentence 11

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By some estimates China and India together made about half of the world's goods around 1700; Europe pulled ahead in the 1800s.

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**Who acts:** China, Europe · **What happens:** make, pull · **To what, where:** half, 1700, 1800s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» 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 (China, Europe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:11
# text = By some estimates China and India together made about half of the world's goods around 1700; Europe pulled ahead in the 1800s.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 072-why-some-places-grew-rich.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	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nmod	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1700	1700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | China and India | half of the world's goods |  | 1700 |  | by some estimates; together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Product |
| 2 | **pull** | past | Europe |  |  | the 1800s |  | ahead *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:11`.

**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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