Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 12

Today most goods cross the sea in steel boxes all the same size, and one T-shirt may grow in India and be sewn in Bangladesh.

Who acts: most goods, one T shirt · What happens: cross, grow, sew · To what, where: sea, India, Bangladesh

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history 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 (most goods, one T shirt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obl:unmarked
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 goods	amod
3	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 cross	nsubj
4	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 boxes	case
8	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boxes	compound
9	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 size	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 size	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 size	amod
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boxes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grow	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grow	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 shirt	nummod
17	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shirt	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 T	punct
19	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grow	aux
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cross	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 India	case
23	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 grow	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sewn	cc
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 sewn	aux:pass
26	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 grow	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Bangladesh	case
28	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sewn	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present	most goods	the sea		today	in steel boxes all same size	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Patient in box=Topic
2	grow	may	one T shirt		India			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in india=Location
3	sew	infinitive · passive	one T shirt not said here		Bangladesh			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: in bangladesh=Destination

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.

Licence: CC 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:history:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:12.

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.

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