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title: Some countries are rich and some poor for many reasons, like history… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Some countries are rich and some poor for many reasons, like history, wars, education, resources and how well things are run; printing more money does not fix it, because the same amount of food with twice the money just means twice the prices. Who acts: countries, printing, same amount. A sentence 
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 4

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Some countries are rich and some poor for many reasons, like history, wars, education, resources and how well things are run; printing more money does not fix it, because the same amount of food with twice the money just means twice the prices.

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**Who acts:** countries, printing, same amount · **What happens:** be, run, print, not fix, mean, amount · **To what, where:** more money, money, prices, food

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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 (countries, printing, same amount), 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:4
# text = Some countries are rich and some poor for many reasons, like history, wars, education, resources and how well things are run; printing more money does not fix it, because the same amount of food with twice the money just means twice the prices.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	printing	print	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	44	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
47	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	49	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | present | some countries |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | some countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for many reasons like history and wars  education and resources and things | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **print** | gerund |  | more money |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **fix** | present · do-support | printing | money |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **mean** | present | the same amount of food with the money | the prices |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic |
| 7 | **amount** |  |  | food with the money |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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): R5-strong ×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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