Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 8
It was reported that the USA put tariffs on goods from other countries; some say tariffs protect jobs at home, others say they make things dearer for shoppers.
Who acts: USA, some, tariffs, others, countries · What happens: report, put, say, protect, make · To what, where: banana, tariffs, goods, jobs, home, things · 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 (USA, some, tariffs, others), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 USA | det |
| 6 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 8 | tariffs | tariff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 goods | case |
| 10 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 countries | case |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 countries | amod |
| 13 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 goods | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | parataxis |
| 17 | tariffs | tariff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protect | nsubj |
| 18 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | ccomp |
| 19 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protect | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 protect | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 say | punct |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 say | nsubj |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | parataxis |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 make | nsubj |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 say | ccomp |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | dearer | dear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 make | xcomp |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 shoppers | case |
| 30 | shoppers | shopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 dearer | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | 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 | report | past · passive | banana | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | put | past | the USA | tariffs | goods from other countries | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tariff=Theme on goods=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | protect | present | tariffs | jobs | home | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | make | present | countries = country | things | dear property | 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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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