--- title: So ask not only «what did they have?» but «what did they do with it?» — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics description: So ask not only «what did they have?» but «what did they do with it?» Who acts: you, Singapore. 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 every clause. --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Why some places grew rich, sentence 4 So ask not only «what did they have?» but «what did they do with it?» **Who acts:** you, Singapore · **What happens:** ask, not have, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, 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:4 # text = So ask not only «what did they have?» but «what did they do with it?» # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Singapore | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Singapore | | | | | with place | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Why some places grew rich, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/3/) - next →: [Why some places grew rich, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/)