What money is and why people accept it, sentence 9
Money can be cash (coins and notes) or digital money (numbers kept by a bank and spent with a card or phone); both buy the same things.
Who acts: Money, both · What happens: be, keep, spend, buy · To what, where: cash, numbers, same 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, both), 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 cash | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cash | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cash | cop |
| 4 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 coins | punct |
| 6 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cash | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 notes | cc |
| 8 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coins | conj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 coins | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 money | cc |
| 11 | digital | digital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 money | amod |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cash | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 numbers | punct |
| 14 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 money | conj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 numbers | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bank | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bank | det |
| 18 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spent | cc |
| 20 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 kept | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 card | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 card | det |
| 23 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spent | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 phone | cc |
| 25 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 card | conj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 phone | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 buy | punct |
| 28 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 buy | nsubj |
| 29 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cash | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 things | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 things | amod |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 buy | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cash | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | Money | cash or digital money and numbers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | numbers not said here | by a bank | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by bank=Location | ||||
| 3 | spend | participle | with a card or phone | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | both | the same things | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:9.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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