What money is and why people accept it, sentence 6

A note or coin is worth what it says because people trust that everyone else will accept it too.

Who acts: note, people, everyone · What happens: be, say, trust, accept · To what, where: note · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (note, people, everyone), 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	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worth	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 coin	cc
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 note	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	cop
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 says	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	ccomp
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 trust	mark
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 trust	nsubj
12	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 accept	mark
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 accept	nsubj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 everyone	advmod
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 accept	aux
17	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trust	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 accept	obj
19	too	too	ADV	_	17 accept	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a note or coin		worth property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	note			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	trust	present	people			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	accept	future	everyone	note		vn obtain-13.5.2 «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:6.

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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