---
title: Cheap clothes have hidden costs: cotton needs lots of water, dye can… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheap clothes have hidden costs: cotton needs lots of water, dye can pollute rivers, and in 2013 a clothes-factory building collapsed in Bangladesh, so people now push for safer factories and fair pay. Who acts: Cheap clothes, cotton, dye, clothes factory building. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes:
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/) / 4

# Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cheap clothes have hidden costs: cotton needs lots of water, dye can pollute rivers, and in 2013 a clothes-factory building collapsed in Bangladesh, so people now push for safer factories and fair pay.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Cheap clothes, cotton, dye, clothes factory building, people · **What happens:** have, hide, need, pollute, collapse, push · **To what, where:** hidden costs, lots, rivers, Bangladesh

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» 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 (Cheap clothes, cotton, dye, clothes factory building), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:4
# text = Cheap clothes have hidden costs: cotton needs lots of water, dye can pollute rivers, and in 2013 a clothes-factory building collapsed in Bangladesh, so people now push for safer factories and fair pay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
13	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	pollute	pollute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
36	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Cheap clothes | hidden costs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient |
| 2 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **need** | present | cotton | lots of water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme |
| 4 | **pollute** | can | dye | rivers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **collapse** | past | a clothes factory building |  |  | Bangladesh |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **push** | present | people |  |  |  | now | for safer factories and fair pay | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:4`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/3/)
- next →: [Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/)

