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title: After 1868 Japan studied factories, schools and laws from other coun… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: After 1868 Japan studied factories, schools and laws from other countries and built its own versions, becoming an industrial power within decades. Who acts: Japan. 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 pra
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# Why some places grew rich, sentence 14

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After 1868 Japan studied factories, schools and laws from other countries and built its own versions, becoming an industrial power within decades.

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**Who acts:** Japan · **What happens:** study, build, become · **To what, where:** factories, own versions, industrial power

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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 (Japan), 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:14
# text = After 1868 Japan studied factories, schools and laws from other countries and built its own versions, becoming an industrial power within decades.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1868	1868	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **study** | past | Japan | factories and schools and laws from other countries |  |  | after 1868 |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=Topic |
| 2 | **build** | past | Japan *not said here* | trade's own versions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset version=Product |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Japan *not said here* | a industrial power |  |  | decade |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:history:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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