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title: Trade is buying and selling between countries; an import is somethin… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Trade is buying and selling between countries; an import is something bought from abroad, and an export is something sold abroad. Who acts: Trade, import, export. A sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 5

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Trade is buying and selling between countries; an import is something bought from abroad, and an export is something sold abroad.

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**Who acts:** Trade, import, export · **What happens:** buy, sell, be · **To what, where:** something

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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 (Trade, import, export), 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:5
# text = Trade is buying and selling between countries; an import is something bought from abroad, and an export is something sold abroad.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	import	import	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	parataxis	_	_
13	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	conj	_	_
22	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present · progressive | Trade |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund | Trade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between countries | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a import | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from abroad=Source |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a export | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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