Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 10
A gift is something you give for nothing back; a swap should be about equal value unless you mean it as a gift.
Who acts: gift, you, swap · What happens: be, give, mean · To what, where: something, swap
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swaps and barter in the playground» 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 (gift, you, swap), 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 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 value | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 give | obl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 nothing | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 swap | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 swap | det |
| 12 | swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 value | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 value | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 value | cop |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 value | case |
| 16 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 value | amod |
| 17 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 20 mean | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 value | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 mean | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 gift | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 gift | det |
| 24 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mean | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | 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 | present | a gift | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | you | for nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for nothing=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is | should | a swap | about equal value | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean a condition, not said to happen | present | you | swap | as a gift | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Topic as gift=Attribute |
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:004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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