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title: It was reported that the USA put tariffs on goods from other countri… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that the USA put tariffs on goods from other countries; some say tariffs protect jobs at home, others say they make things dearer for shoppers. Who acts: USA, some, tariffs, others. A sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money course of Mova's prima
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 8

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It was reported that the USA put tariffs on goods from other countries; some say tariffs protect jobs at home, others say they make things dearer for shoppers.

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**Who acts:** USA, some, tariffs, others, countries · **What happens:** report, put, say, protect, make · **To what, where:** banana, tariffs, goods, jobs, home, things · **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 (USA, some, tariffs, others), 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:8
# text = It was reported that the USA put tariffs on goods from other countries; some say tariffs protect jobs at home, others say they make things dearer for shoppers.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	tariffs	tariff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	tariffs	tariff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	dearer	dear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	shoppers	shopper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **report** | past · passive |  | banana |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **put** | past | the USA | tariffs |  | goods from other countries |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tariff=Theme on goods=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **protect** | present | tariffs | jobs |  | home |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | present | countries *= country* | things |  |  |  | dear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |

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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:8`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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