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title: Many cocoa farmers earn only a small part of the price of a bar; fai… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics
description: Many cocoa farmers earn only a small part of the price of a bar; fair-trade schemes try to pay them more, and people still argue about how well these schemes work. Who acts: Many cocoa farmers, trade schemes, people, schemes. A sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course o
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# Chocolate and sweets, sentence 6

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Many cocoa farmers earn only a small part of the price of a bar; fair-trade schemes try to pay them more, and people still argue about how well these schemes work.

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**Who acts:** Many cocoa farmers, trade schemes, people, schemes · **What happens:** earn, try, pay, argue, work · **To what, where:** small part, more, schemes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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 (Many cocoa farmers, trade schemes, people, schemes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:6
# text = Many cocoa farmers earn only a small part of the price of a bar; fair-trade schemes try to pay them more, and people still argue about how well these schemes work.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 002-chocolate-and-sweets.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	schemes	scheme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	schemes	scheme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **earn** | present | Many cocoa farmers | a small part of the price of a bar |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | present | trade schemes |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | trade schemes *not said here* | more | schemes *= scheme* |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient more=Asset |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** | present | this schemes |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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