Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 8
China was the first country to use paper money, over 1,000 years ago.
Who acts: China · What happens: be, use · To what, where: first country, paper money
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 (China), 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 country | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 use | mark |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 country | acl |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 money | compound |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 1,000 | advmod |
| 12 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 13 years | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | China | the first country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | paper money | year | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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:8.
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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