Why some places grew rich, sentence 13
Norway puts most of its oil money into a huge fund for the future; some other oil countries did not grow rich for most people, which some economists call a «resource curse», an idea that is debated.
Who acts: Norway, other oil countries, economists · What happens: put, not grow, call, debate · To what, where: most, huge fund, resource curse, idea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» 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 (Norway, other oil countries, economists), 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 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 puts | nsubj |
| 2 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 puts | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 money | nmod:poss |
| 6 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 money | compound |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 most | nmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 fund | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fund | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fund | amod |
| 11 | fund | fund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puts | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 future | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 future | det |
| 14 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fund | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 grow | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 countries | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 countries | amod |
| 18 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 countries | compound |
| 19 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grow | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 grow | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 grow | advmod |
| 22 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 puts | parataxis |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grow | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 25 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rich | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 call | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 call | obj |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 economists | det |
| 30 | economists | economist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 call | nsubj |
| 31 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 grow | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 curse | det |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 35 curse | punct |
| 34 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 curse | compound |
| 35 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 call | xcomp |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 35 curse | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 idea | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 idea | det |
| 39 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 curse | appos |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 debated | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 debated | aux:pass |
| 42 | debated | debate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 idea | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 puts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | Norway | most of trade's oil money | a huge fund for the future | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent most=Goal | |||
| 2 | not grow | past · do-support | some other oil countries | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present | some economists | a resource curse | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | debate | present · passive | a idea | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
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:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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