Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 7
Coins made trade easier because each one had a set size, weight and value, so people did not have to weigh metal every time.
Who acts: Coins, one, people · What happens: make, have, not have, weigh · To what, where: trade, set size, metal
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 (Coins, one, 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 | Coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 size | det |
| 10 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 size | amod |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weight | punct |
| 13 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 value | cc |
| 15 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 have | advmod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 weigh | mark |
| 23 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 weigh | obj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 weigh | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Coins | trade | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trade=Product | |||
| 2 | have | past | each one | a set size and weight and value | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not have | past · do-support | people | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | weigh | to-infinitive | people not said here | metal | time | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme metal=Value |
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:7.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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