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title: Trade is countries buying and selling things to each other, and it i… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Trade is countries buying and selling things to each other, and it is why your banana says "Ecuador", your T-shirt "Bangladesh" and your phone "China". Who acts: Trade, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 0

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Trade is countries buying and selling things to each other, and it is why your banana says "Ecuador", your T-shirt "Bangladesh" and your phone "China".

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**Who acts:** Trade, countries · **What happens:** be, buy, sell · **To what, where:** countries, things, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money 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 (Trade, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:037-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries.lesson:0
# text = Trade is countries buying and selling things to each other, and it is why your banana says "Ecuador", your T-shirt "Bangladesh" and your phone "China".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 037-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | Trade | countries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund | countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** | gerund | countries *not said here* | things | each |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to each=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | Trade |  |  |  |  | say *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:money:037-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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