Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 0

Money has changed its shape many times, but its job has stayed the same: to buy, to save and to measure what things are worth.

Who acts: Money, job, things · What happens: change, stay, buy, save, measure, be · To what, where: shape

This is a sentence of the lesson «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» 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, job, things), 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	3 changed	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	aux
3	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shape	nmod:poss
5	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obj
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 times	amod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changed	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stayed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stayed	cc
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 job	nmod:poss
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stayed	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stayed	aux
13	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 changed	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stayed	xcomp
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 buy	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 buy	mark
18	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 changed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 save	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 save	mark
21	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 buy	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 measure	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 measure	mark
24	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 save	conj
25	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	26 things	det
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 worth	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 worth	cop
28	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 measure	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · perfect	Money	Money's shape	time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
2	stay	present · perfect	Money's job			same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy	to-infinitive	Money not said here				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	save	to-infinitive	Money not said here				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	measure	to-infinitive	Money not said here				vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	what things			worth property	tree rules
7	job		Money				nom job «act intransitive»: 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:005-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones.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): no change. 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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