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title: Some people prefer local produce to support farmers nearby, like Bri… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people prefer local produce to support farmers nearby, like British apples at £2 a bag instead of imported ones at £1.50; others say imports are cheaper and help poorer countries; both views have points. Who acts: people, others, imports, views. A sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich an
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 12

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Some people prefer local produce to support farmers nearby, like British apples at £2 a bag instead of imported ones at £1.50; others say imports are cheaper and help poorer countries; both views have points.

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**Who acts:** people, others, imports, views · **What happens:** prefer, support, import, say, be, help · **To what, where:** local produce, farmers, poorer countries, points · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, others, imports, views), 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:12
# text = Some people prefer local produce to support farmers nearby, like British apples at £2 a bag instead of imported ones at £1.50; others say imports are cheaper and help poorer countries; both views have points.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	produce	produce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	obl	_	_
16	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	imported	import	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	obl	_	_
25	1.50	1.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	24	nummod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	imports	import	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	ccomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
34	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
40	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	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 | **prefer** | present | some people | local produce |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer produce=Stimulus |
| 2 | **support** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | farmers |  |  |  | like British apples; nearby *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **import** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | imports |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | infinitive | others *not said here* | poorer countries |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **have** | present | both views | points |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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