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title: Real wealth came from many things at once: geography, trade, skills,… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: Real wealth came from many things at once: geography, trade, skills, schools, good laws, inventions and sometimes taking from others; historians still argue which mattered most, and the answer is different for each place. Who acts: Real wealth, historians, answer. A sentence of the lesson «Why some 
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# Why some places grew rich, sentence 2

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Real wealth came from many things at once: geography, trade, skills, schools, good laws, inventions and sometimes taking from others; historians still argue which mattered most, and the answer is different for each place.

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**Who acts:** Real wealth, historians, answer · **What happens:** come, take, argue, matter, be · **To what, where:** geography, many things, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Real wealth, historians, answer), 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:2
# text = Real wealth came from many things at once: geography, trade, skills, schools, good laws, inventions and sometimes taking from others; historians still argue which mattered most, and the answer is different for each place.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	inventions	invention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
33	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come** | past | Real wealth | geography and trade and skills and schools and good laws and inventions |  | many things |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from thing=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Real wealth *not said here* |  |  | others |  | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from other=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | historians |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **matter** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | the answer |  |  |  |  | for each place; different *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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, 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/).

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