Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 0
Tip a piggy bank onto the carpet and you see a jumble of coins; the size of a coin does not tell you its value, the number stamped on it does.
Who acts: you, size, number · What happens: tip, see, not tell, stamp, jumble, value · To what, where: piggy bank, carpet, jumble, value, you, size · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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 (you, size, number), 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 | Tip | tip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bank | det |
| 3 | piggy | piggy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bank | compound |
| 4 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tip | obj |
| 5 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 7 carpet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 carpet | det |
| 7 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tip | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tip | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 jumble | det |
| 12 | jumble | jumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 coins | case |
| 14 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 jumble | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 size | det |
| 17 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 coin | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coin | det |
| 20 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 size | nmod |
| 21 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 tell | advmod |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tip | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 value | nmod:poss |
| 26 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stamped | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 number | det |
| 29 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stamped | nsubj |
| 30 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | conj |
| 31 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 33 does | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stamped | obl |
| 33 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 stamped | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tip | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | imperative | you not said here | a piggy bank | the carpet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bank=Theme onto carpet=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | present | you | a jumble of coins | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jumble=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | present · do-support | the size of a coin | size's value | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient value=Topic | |||
| 4 | stamp | past | the number | size | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | jumble | coins | nom jumble «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | value | size | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=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:002-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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