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title: In a rich country, an average person might have about 30 times more… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: In a rich country, an average person might have about 30 times more money a year than in a very poor country; many poor countries are getting richer over time, but big gaps remain. Who acts: average person, many poor countries, big gaps. A sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countr
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 10

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In a rich country, an average person might have about 30 times more money a year than in a very poor country; many poor countries are getting richer over time, but big gaps remain.

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**Who acts:** average person, many poor countries, big gaps · **What happens:** have, get, remain · **To what, where:** more money, rich country

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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 (average person, many poor countries, big gaps), 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:10
# text = In a rich country, an average person might have about 30 times more money a year than in a very poor country; many poor countries are getting richer over time, but big gaps remain.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
30	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **have** | might | a average person | more money |  | a rich country |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present · progressive | many poor countries |  |  |  | time | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remain** | present | big gaps |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): no change. **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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