What money is and why people accept it, sentence 2

A shiny button or a brilliant yo-yo is not money, because nobody has agreed to treat it as money; money works only while people trust it.

Who acts: shiny button, nobody, money, people · What happens: not be, agree, treat, work, trust · To what, where: 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 (shiny button, nobody, money, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 button	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 button	amod
3	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 money	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 yo	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 yo	det
6	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 yo	amod
7	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yo	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 yo	punct
9	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 button	conj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 money	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 money	advmod
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 works	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 agreed	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 agreed	mark
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 agreed	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 agreed	aux
17	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 money	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 treat	mark
19	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 agreed	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 treat	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 money	case
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 treat	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 works	punct
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 works	nsubj
25	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 trust	advmod
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 trust	mark
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 trust	nsubj
29	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 works	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trust	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 money	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a shiny button or a brilliant yo yo	money		tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	present · perfect	nobody			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	treat not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	money	as money	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as money=Attribute
4	work	present	money			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	trust	present	people	money		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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:2.

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, R6-punct-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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