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title: Sanctions are when countries refuse to trade with, sell to or lend m… — Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sanctions are when countries refuse to trade with, sell to or lend money to a country, company or person to push them to change; many countries put sanctions on Russia after 2022 and froze money belonging to its central bank. Who acts: Sanctions, countries, many countries, money. A sentence of the l
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# Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes, sentence 17

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Sanctions are when countries refuse to trade with, sell to or lend money to a country, company or person to push them to change; many countries put sanctions on Russia after 2022 and froze money belonging to its central bank.

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**Who acts:** Sanctions, countries, many countries, money · **What happens:** be, refuse, not trade, sell, lend, push · **To what, where:** money, country, sanctions, Russia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» of the politics 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 (Sanctions, countries, many countries, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.lesson:17
# text = Sanctions are when countries refuse to trade with, sell to or lend money to a country, company or person to push them to change; many countries put sanctions on Russia after 2022 and froze money belonging to its central bank.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	trade	trade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
34	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **does** | present | Sanctions |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | present | countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **trade** | to-infinitive | countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sell** | infinitive | countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lend** | infinitive | countries *not said here* | money | a country and company or person |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to country=Recipient |
| 6 | **push** | to-infinitive | countries *not said here* | sanctions *= sanction* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **change** | to-infinitive | countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **put** | past | many countries | sanctions |  | Russia | after 2022 |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme on russia=Destination |
| 9 | **freeze** | past | many countries *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient money=Result |
| 10 | **belong** | gerund | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to country's central bank | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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