Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 6

With strangers you need more: written promises, laws everyone can see, fair weights on the scales, and money that both sides accept.

Who acts: you, everyone, sides · What happens: need, write, see, accept · To what, where: more, laws, money

This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history 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, everyone, sides), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 strangers	case
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 need	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 promises	punct
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 promises	amod
8	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 more	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laws	punct
10	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 promises	conj
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laws	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weights	punct
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weights	amod
16	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 promises	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 scales	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 scales	det
19	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weights	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 money	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 money	cc
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promises	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 accept	obj
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 sides	det
25	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 accept	nsubj
26	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 money	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	you	more and written promises and laws and fair weights on the scales and money	with strangers	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
2	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	can	everyone	laws not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus
4	accept	present	both sides	money		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:history:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.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, R3-conj-first ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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