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title: Most of the world's goods are carried by ship, because ships move hu… — Transport: from horses to planes · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the world's goods are carried by ship, because ships move huge loads cheaply. Who acts: ships. A sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 25

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Most of the world's goods are carried by ship, because ships move huge loads cheaply.

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**Who acts:** ships · **What happens:** carry, move · **To what, where:** Most, huge loads

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» of the world 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 (ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:25
# text = Most of the world's goods are carried by ship, because ships move huge loads cheaply.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 099-transport-horses-to-planes.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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **carry** | present · passive |  | Most of the world's goods |  |  |  | by ship | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | ships | huge loads |  |  |  | cheaply *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme load=Result |

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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:world:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:25`.

**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): no change. **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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