Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 11

On the island of Yap, giant stone wheels were used as money; some were too big to move, so people simply remembered who owned each one.

Who acts: some, people · What happens: use, be, move, remember, own · To what, where: giant stone wheels, island, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (some, people), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 island	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 island	det
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Yap	case
5	Yap	yap	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 island	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 island	punct
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wheels	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheels	compound
9	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 used	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 used	aux:pass
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 money	case
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 big	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 big	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 big	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 big	advmod
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 used	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 move	mark
20	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 big	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 owned	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 remembered	advmod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 remembered	nsubj
24	simply	simply	ADV	_	25 remembered	advmod
25	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 used	conj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 owned	nsubj
27	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 remembered	ccomp
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 owned	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		giant stone wheels	the island of Yap	as money	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as money=Attribute
2	is	past	some			big property	tree rules
3	move	to-infinitive	some not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	remember	past	people			simply property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	own	past		each one			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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:005-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones.lesson:11.

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, R8-pos-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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