--- title: It was reported that when one country stopped selling grain because… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that when one country stopped selling grain because of a war, bread prices went up; even if wheat gets much dearer, a £1 loaf might only go up to about £1.10, because wheat is only part of a loaf's cost. Who acts: one country, bread prices, wheat, £ loaf. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one country, bread prices, wheat, £ loaf), 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:14 # text = It was reported that when one country stopped selling grain because of a war, bread prices went up; even if wheat gets much dearer, a £1 loaf might only go up to about £1.10, because wheat is only part of a loaf's cost. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:mark 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:ccomp 9 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 10 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 25 much much ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 dearer dear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 £ £ SYM $ _ 31 compound _ _ 30 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 31 loaf loaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 £ £ SYM $ _ 34 obl _ _ 39 1.10 1.10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 38 nummod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 because because SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 only only ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 advcl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 loaf loaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod:poss _ _ 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | | phone | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | past | one country | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **sell** | gerund | one country *not said here* | grain | | | | because a war | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 4 | **go up** | past | bread prices | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | wheat | | | | | dear *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **go up** | might | a £ loaf | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **is a** | present | wheat | part | | | | of a loaf's cost | tree rules | | 8 | **cost** | | a loaf | | | | | | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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:money:037-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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: [Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/13/) - next →: [Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/)