Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 9
A cheque is a written note telling your bank to pay someone; few people use cheques now.
Who acts: cheque, written note, few people · What happens: write, be, tell, pay, use · To what, where: written note, bank, someone, cheques · 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 (cheque, written note, few 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cheque | det |
| 2 | cheque | cheque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 note | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 note | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 note | det |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 note | amod |
| 6 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 note | acl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bank | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 telling | xcomp |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 pay | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 use | punct |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | nsubj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 note | parataxis |
| 17 | cheques | cheque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | obj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | _ | 16 use | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 note | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a cheque | a written note | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a written note not said here | your bank | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bank=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | a written note not said here | someone | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Asset | ||||
| 5 | use | present | few people | cheques | now | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheque=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:9.
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. 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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