Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 5

Salt was very valuable because it stopped food going bad; the word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt, though historians argue about whether Roman soldiers were really paid in salt.

Who acts: Salt, food, word, historians · What happens: be, stop, go, come, argue, pay · To what, where: food, Latin word, Roman soldiers, salt · 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 (Salt, food, word, historians), 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	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 valuable	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 valuable	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 valuable	advmod
4	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 stopped	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 valuable	advcl
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	obj
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 food	acl
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 going	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 salary	punct
15	salary	salary	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 salary	punct
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 valuable	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 word	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 word	det
20	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 word	amod
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 salt	case
23	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 word	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 argue	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 argue	mark
26	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 argue	nsubj
27	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 comes	advcl
28	about	about	SCONJ	_	34 paid	mark
29	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	34 paid	mark
30	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 soldiers	amod
31	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 paid	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 paid	aux:pass
33	really	really	ADV	_	34 paid	advmod
34	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 argue	ccomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 salt	case
36	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 paid	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 valuable	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Salt			valuable property	tree rules
2	stop	past	salt	food			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality food=Eventuality
3	go	gerund	food not said here			bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	the word		the Latin word for salt		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location
5	argue speech: disagree	present	historians				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pay	past · passive		Roman soldiers	salt		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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:5.

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, 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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