Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 9

Jayden's aunt says the school story of «first barter, then money» is «lowkey contested», which means scholars quietly but really disagree about it.

Who acts: aunt, scholars · What happens: say, contest, mean, disagree · To what, where: school story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (aunt, scholars), 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	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 aunt	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jayden	case
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contested	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 barter	case
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 barter	punct
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 barter	amod
11	barter	barter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 money	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 money	advmod
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 barter	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 barter	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 contested	aux:pass
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 contested	punct
18	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	19 contested	advmod
19	contested	contest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	ccomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 contested	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 contested	advcl
24	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 disagree	nsubj
25	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	28 disagree	advmod
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 disagree	cc
27	really	really	ADV	_	28 disagree	advmod
28	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 means	ccomp
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 disagree	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jayden's aunt			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	contest in a quote	present · passive		the school story of first barter	lowkey property	tree rules
3	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	disagree	infinitive	scholars		about money; quietly property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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: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): 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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