Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 6

To specialise is to focus on what you are best at; hot countries grow bananas, which need about 27°C, while cooler countries make other things.

Who acts: you, hot countries, bananas, cooler countries · What happens: specialise, focus, be, grow, need, make · To what, where: bananas, 27, other things

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, hot countries, bananas, cooler countries), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 specialise	mark
2	specialise	specialise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 is	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 focus	mark
5	focus	focus	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 is	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 best	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 best	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 best	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 best	cop
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 focus	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	10 best	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 countries	amod
14	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grow	nsubj
15	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 is	parataxis
16	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grow	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 need	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 need	nsubj
19	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bananas	acl:relcl
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 27	advmod
21	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 need	obj
22	°	°	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 27	list
23	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 °	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 make	mark
26	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 countries	amod
27	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 make	nsubj
28	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 need	advcl
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 make	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 specialise	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	specialise	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	focus	to-infinitive				vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you		good property	tree rules
4	grow	present	hot countries	bananas		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location banana=Theme
5	need	present	bananas	27		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 27=Theme
6	make	present	cooler countries	other things		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product

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:6.

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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