What money is and why people accept it, sentence 4

Money on its own is worth nothing to eat or play with; it is a tool for trading, and it is only useful when other people have things to sell.

Who acts: Money, value, other people · What happens: be, eat, play, have, sell · To what, where: nothing, tool, things

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, value, other 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	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 own	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 own	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Money	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 play	cc
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	11 play	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tool	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tool	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tool	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tool	det
17	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 trading	case
19	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tool	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 useful	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 useful	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 useful	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 useful	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 useful	advmod
25	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	conj
26	when	when	ADV	_	29 have	advmod
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 people	amod
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 useful	advcl
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sell	mark
32	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 things	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Money on value's own	nothing		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	infinitive				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	value	a tool	for trading	tree rules
5	is	present	value		useful property	tree rules
6	have	present	other people	things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
7	sell	to-infinitive	other people not said here	things not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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:4.

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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