Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 14

When money stops working, for example after a war, people go back to barter, using things everyone wants like eggs or cigarettes.

Who acts: money, people, everyone · What happens: stop, work, go back, use, want · To what, where: things

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 (money, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	2 money	mark
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 go	advcl
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 example	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 example	case
7	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 working	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 war	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 war	det
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 example	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 barter	case
16	barter	barter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 using	punct
18	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 go	advcl
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 using	obj
20	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	21 wants	nsubj
21	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 things	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 eggs	case
23	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wants	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 cigarettes	cc
25	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eggs	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	present	money			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	money not said here		for example after a war	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for example=Beneficiary
3	go back	present	people		to barter result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to barter=Result
4	use	gerund	people not said here	things		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	want	present	everyone	things not said here	like eggs or cigarettes	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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:004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.lesson:14.

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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