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title: Picture one giant ship carrying about 20,000 containers getting stuc… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture one giant ship carrying about 20,000 containers getting stuck in a canal: it was reported that goods were held up around the world, which shows how connected trade is, and how one blocked route can push prices up. Who acts: you, one giant ship, 20,000 containers, connected trade. A sentence 
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 2

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Picture one giant ship carrying about 20,000 containers getting stuck in a canal: it was reported that goods were held up around the world, which shows how connected trade is, and how one blocked route can push prices up.

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**Who acts:** you, one giant ship, 20,000 containers, connected trade, one blocked route · **What happens:** picture, carry, get, report, hold up, show · **To what, where:** one giant ship, 20,000 containers, ship, goods, world, prices · **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 (you, one giant ship, 20,000 containers, connected trade), 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:2
# text = Picture one giant ship carrying about 20,000 containers getting stuck in a canal: it was reported that goods were held up around the world, which shows how connected trade is, and how one blocked route can push prices up.
# 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 ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	containers	container	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
41	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | one giant ship |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | one giant ship *not said here* | 20,000 containers |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | 20,000 containers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **report** | past · passive |  | ship |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **hold up** | past · passive |  | goods |  | the world |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **connect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **be** | present | connected trade |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **block** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 10 | **push up** | can | one blocked route | prices |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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): R5-strong ×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.

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