What money is and why people accept it, sentence 8

Money has three jobs: you spend it, you save it for later, and you use it to compare prices.

Who acts: Money, you · What happens: have, spend, save, use, compare · To what, where: three jobs, coin, prices

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, you), 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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 jobs	nummod
4	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 spend	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 spend	nsubj
7	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spend	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 save	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 save	nsubj
11	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spend	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 save	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 later	case
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 save	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 use	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 use	nsubj
18	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 save	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 use	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 compare	mark
21	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 use	advcl
22	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 compare	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Money	three jobs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient
2	spend	present	you	coin		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
3	save	present	you	coin	late property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	use	present	you	coin		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	compare	to-infinitive	you not said here	prices		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient

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:8.

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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