What money is and why people accept it, sentence 11

Old coins and notes can stop being accepted in shops; some banks still swap them, and collectors may want rare ones.

Who acts: Old coins, banks, collectors · What happens: stop, accept, swap, want · To what, where: shops, things, rare ones

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 (Old coins, banks, collectors), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 coins	amod
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 notes	cc
4	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 coins	conj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 accepted	aux:pass
8	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stop	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 shops	case
10	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 accepted	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 swap	punct
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 banks	det
13	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swap	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 swap	advmod
15	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swap	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 want	cc
19	collectors	collector	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 want	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 want	aux
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 swap	conj
22	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ones	amod
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 want	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stop	can	Old coins and notes				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	accept	gerund · passive	Old coins and notes not said here		shops		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»
3	swap	present	some banks	things = thing		still	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	want	may	collectors	rare ones			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=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:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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