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title: Some cheap goods are made by workers with low pay and hard condition… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cheap goods are made by workers with low pay and hard conditions; a £3 T-shirt may pay its maker only a few pence, and fair trade labels try to make sure workers get a fair deal. Who acts: workers, £ T shirt, fair trade labels. A sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» 
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# Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 9

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Some cheap goods are made by workers with low pay and hard conditions; a £3 T-shirt may pay its maker only a few pence, and fair trade labels try to make sure workers get a fair deal.

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**Who acts:** workers, £ T shirt, fair trade labels · **What happens:** make, pay, try, get · **To what, where:** cheap goods, few pence, maker, fair deal

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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 (workers, £ T shirt, fair trade labels), 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:9
# text = Some cheap goods are made by workers with low pay and hard conditions; a £3 T-shirt may pay its maker only a few pence, and fair trade labels try to make sure workers get a fair deal.
# 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	compound	_	_
17	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	T	T	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
20	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod
38	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:ccomp
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present · passive | workers with low pay and hard conditions | some cheap goods |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **pay** | may | a £ T shirt | a few pence | banana's maker |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent maker=Recipient pence=Asset |
| 3 | **try** | present | fair trade labels |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fair trade labels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **get** | present | workers | a fair deal |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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