Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries, sentence 9
Some cheap goods are made by workers with low pay and hard conditions; a £3 T-shirt may pay its maker only a few pence, and fair trade labels try to make sure workers get a fair deal.
Who acts: workers, £ T shirt, fair trade labels · What happens: make, pay, try, get · To what, where: cheap goods, few pence, maker, fair deal
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 (workers, £ T shirt, fair trade labels), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 goods | det |
| 2 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goods | amod |
| 3 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 workers | case |
| 7 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl:agent |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pay | case |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pay | amod |
| 10 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 workers | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 conditions | cc |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conditions | amod |
| 13 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pay | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 pay | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shirt | det |
| 16 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 20 shirt | compound |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 T | compound |
| 18 | T | T | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shirt | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 shirt | punct |
| 20 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pay | aux |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | parataxis |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 maker | nmod:poss |
| 24 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | iobj |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 pence | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pence | det |
| 27 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pence | amod |
| 28 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pay | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 try | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 try | cc |
| 31 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 labels | amod |
| 32 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 labels | compound |
| 33 | labels | label | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 try | nsubj |
| 34 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 try | xcomp |
| 37 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 make | xcomp |
| 38 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 get | nsubj |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sure | ccomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 deal | det |
| 41 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 deal | amod |
| 42 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 get | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | workers with low pay and hard conditions | some cheap goods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | pay | may | a £ T shirt | a few pence | banana's maker | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent maker=Recipient pence=Asset | |||
| 3 | try | present | fair trade labels | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | fair trade labels not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | get | present | workers | a fair deal | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |
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:9.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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