What money is and why people accept it, sentence 15
Money is only useful when someone has something to sell; a pile of coins on a desert island buys nothing.
Who acts: Money, someone, pile · What happens: be, have, sell, buy · To what, where: something, nothing
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 (Money, someone, pile), 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 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 useful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 useful | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 useful | advmod |
| 4 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 has | advmod |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 useful | advcl |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 has | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sell | mark |
| 10 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 something | acl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 useful | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pile | det |
| 13 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buys | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 coins | case |
| 15 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pile | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 18 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 island | compound |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coins | nmod |
| 20 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 useful | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 buys | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 useful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Money | useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | someone | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sell | to-infinitive | someone not said here | something not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | buy | present | a pile of coins on a desert island | nothing | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:15.
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): no change. 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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