What money is and why people accept it, sentence 13
Long ago a British note could be swapped at the bank for gold; today money is not backed by gold but by the government and people's trust.
Who acts: people · What happens: swap, not back, trust · To what, where: British note, bank, today money
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 (people), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 swapped | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 note | det |
| 4 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 note | amod |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swapped | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 swapped | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 swapped | aux:pass |
| 8 | swapped | swap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swapped | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swapped | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 backed | punct |
| 15 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 money | compound |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 backed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 backed | aux:pass |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 backed | advmod |
| 19 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 swapped | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 backed | obl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 government | cc |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 government | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 government | det |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gold | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trust | cc |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 trust | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 people | case |
| 29 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 government | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swapped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | could · passive | a British note | the bank | for gold; ago property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for gold=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | not back | present · passive | today money | by gold but the government and people's trust | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme by gold=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | trust | people | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:13.
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 ×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.
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