What money is and why people accept it, sentence 1
A £5 note is only a bit of paper or plastic, yet the sweet shop takes it for five £1 bags of sweets, because the shopkeeper knows the next shop, the baker and the bus driver will all take it from her too.
Who acts: £ 5 note, sweet shop, shopkeeper · What happens: be, take, know · To what, where: bit, note, next shop, shop
This is a sentence of the lesson «What money is and why people accept it» 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 (£ 5 note, sweet shop, shopkeeper), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 note | det |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 note | compound |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 note | nummod |
| 4 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bit | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 bit | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 paper | case |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 plastic | cc |
| 12 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paper | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 takes | punct |
| 14 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 takes | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shop | det |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shop | amod |
| 17 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 takes | nsubj |
| 18 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bit | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 takes | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 bags | case |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 bags | nummod |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 23 1 | compound |
| 23 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 bags | nummod |
| 24 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 takes | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sweets | case |
| 26 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bags | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knows | punct |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 knows | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shopkeeper | det |
| 30 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 knows | nsubj |
| 31 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 takes | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shop | det |
| 33 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 shop | amod |
| 34 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 knows | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 baker | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 baker | det |
| 37 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shop | appos |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 take | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 driver | det |
| 40 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 driver | compound |
| 41 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 baker | conj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 take | aux |
| 43 | all | all | ADV | _ | 44 take | advmod |
| 44 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 knows | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 take | obj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 too | case |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 take | obl |
| 48 | too | too | ADV | _ | 44 take | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a £ 5 note | a bit | of paper or plastic | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | present | the sweet shop | note | for five 1 bags of sweets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for bag=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | know | present | the shopkeeper | the next shop | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer shop=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | future | the shopkeeper not said here | shop | shopkeeper obl; all property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:1.
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 ×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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