--- title: Rich places also change: China and India were the biggest economies… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics description: Rich places also change: China and India were the biggest economies for centuries, Europe pulled ahead in the 1800s, and Singapore and South Korea went from poor to rich within one lifetime. Who acts: Rich places, China, Europe, Singapore. A sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/3/) [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/) / [Why some places grew rich](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/) / 3 # Why some places grew rich, sentence 3 Rich places also change: China and India were the biggest economies for centuries, Europe pulled ahead in the 1800s, and Singapore and South Korea went from poor to rich within one lifetime. **Who acts:** Rich places, China, Europe, Singapore · **What happens:** change, be, pull, go · **To what, where:** biggest economies, 1800s, poor 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 (Rich places, China, Europe, Singapore), 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:3 # text = Rich places also change: China and India were the biggest economies for centuries, Europe pulled ahead in the 1800s, and Singapore and South Korea went from poor to rich within one lifetime. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 economies economy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 16 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ _ 33 within within ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 lifetime lifetime NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Rich places | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | China and India | the biggest economies | | | century | | tree rules | | 3 | **pull** | past | Europe | | | the 1800s | | ahead *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | Singapore and South | | | poor | | to rich; within one lifetime | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from poor=Initial\_Location to rich=Destination | 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:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/2/) - next →: [Why some places grew rich, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/)