Chocolate and sweets, sentence 6

Many cocoa farmers earn only a small part of the price of a bar; fair-trade schemes try to pay them more, and people still argue about how well these schemes work.

Who acts: Many cocoa farmers, trade schemes, people, schemes · What happens: earn, try, pay, argue, work · To what, where: small part, more, schemes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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 (Many cocoa farmers, trade schemes, people, schemes), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farmers	amod
2	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 farmers	compound
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 earn	nsubj
4	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 part	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earn	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 price	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 price	det
11	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bar	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bar	det
14	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 price	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 try	punct
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trade	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 fair	punct
18	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 schemes	compound
19	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 try	nsubj
20	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 earn	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pay	mark
22	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 try	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pay	iobj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 pay	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 argue	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 argue	cc
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 argue	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 argue	advmod
29	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 earn	conj
30	about	about	SCONJ	_	35 work	mark
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 work	advmod
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 schemes	det
34	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 work	nsubj
35	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 argue	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 earn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	earn	present	Many cocoa farmers	a small part of the price of a bar				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	try	present	trade schemes					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	trade schemes not said here	more	schemes = scheme			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient more=Asset
4	argue speech: disagree	present	people			still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work	present	this schemes				well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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