Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 9

If one person knows much more about what things are worth, they can get the better deal, so find out values before you swap.

Who acts: one person, things, you · What happens: know, be, get, find out, swap · To what, where: more, better deal, values

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 (one person, things, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 knows	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 person	nummod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 get	advcl
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 knows	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 more	obl
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 worth	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 worth	cop
11	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knows	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 deal	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 deal	amod
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 find	advmod
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 get	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 find	compound:prt
23	values	value	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 find	obj
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 swap	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 swap	nsubj
26	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 find	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	present	one person	more		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
2	is	present	things		worth property	tree rules
3	get	can	things = thing	the better deal		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
4	find out	infinitive		values		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Topic
5	swap	present	you			vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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: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. 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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