--- title: Singapore became independent in 1965 as a poor port; with trade, sch… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics description: Singapore became independent in 1965 as a poor port; with trade, schools and clean government it became one of the richest places in the world, and South Korea, poorer than many countries in the 1950s, also grew rich. Who acts: Singapore, trade, South Korea. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Singapore, trade, South Korea), 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:12 # text = Singapore became independent in 1965 as a poor port; with trade, schools and clean government it became one of the richest places in the world, and South Korea, poorer than many countries in the 1950s, also grew rich. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1965 1965 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 xcomp _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 richest rich ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 30 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 poorer poor ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:appos 34 than than ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 1950s 1950 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 36 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 also also ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 43 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Singapore | | | | | in 1965 *result*; as a poor port; independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1965=Result | | 2 | **become** | past | trade | | | | | with trade and schools and clean government | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | past | South Korea | | | | | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Why some places grew rich, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/11/) - next →: [Why some places grew rich, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/)