Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 10

In a rich country, an average person might have about 30 times more money a year than in a very poor country; many poor countries are getting richer over time, but big gaps remain.

Who acts: average person, many poor countries, big gaps · What happens: have, get, remain · To what, where: more money, rich country

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money 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 (average person, many poor countries, big gaps), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 country	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 country	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 country	amod
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
7	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 30	advmod
12	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 more	obl:unmarked
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 money	amod
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 money	obl:unmarked
18	than	than	ADP	_	23 country	case
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 country	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 country	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 poor	advmod
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 country	amod
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 money	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 getting	punct
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countries	amod
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countries	amod
27	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 getting	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 getting	aux
29	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 have	advcl
30	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 getting	xcomp
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 time	case
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 getting	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 remain	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 remain	cc
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gaps	amod
36	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 remain	nsubj
37	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 getting	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	might	a average person	more money	a rich country			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	get	present · progressive	many poor countries			time	rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	remain	present	big gaps					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:money:037-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries.lesson:10.

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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