Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 2
Picture one giant ship carrying about 20,000 containers getting stuck in a canal: it was reported that goods were held up around the world, which shows how connected trade is, and how one blocked route can push prices up.
Who acts: you, one giant ship, 20,000 containers, connected trade, one blocked route · What happens: picture, carry, get, report, hold up, show · To what, where: one giant ship, 20,000 containers, ship, goods, world, prices · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, one giant ship, 20,000 containers, connected trade), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ship | nummod |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ship | amod |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ship | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 20,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 containers | nummod |
| 8 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carrying | obj |
| 9 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 containers | acl |
| 10 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 getting | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 canal | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 canal | det |
| 13 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 reported | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reported | aux:pass |
| 17 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 held | mark |
| 19 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 held | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 held | aux:pass |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 reported | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 held | compound:prt |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shows | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 shows | nsubj |
| 28 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 is | advmod |
| 30 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 trade | amod |
| 31 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 is | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 shows | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 push | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 push | cc |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 one | advmod |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 route | nummod |
| 37 | blocked | block | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 route | amod |
| 38 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 push | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 push | aux |
| 40 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Picture | conj |
| 41 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 push | obj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 push | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | one giant ship | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | one giant ship not said here | 20,000 containers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | 20,000 containers not said here | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | report | past · passive | ship | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | hold up | past · passive | goods | the world | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | connect | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | be | present | connected trade | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | block | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 10 | push up | can | one blocked route | prices | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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:2.
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. 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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