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title: Imagine paying for a bun with a printed note while most of Europe st… — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine paying for a bun with a printed note while most of Europe still paid in coins. Who acts: you, most. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# China: the Song and the Mongols, sentence 1

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Imagine paying for a bun with a printed note while most of Europe still paid in coins.

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**Who acts:** you, most · **What happens:** imagine, pay, print · **To what, where:** coins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» of the history 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 (you, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:1
# text = Imagine paying for a bun with a printed note while most of Europe still paid in coins.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a bun; with a printed note | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bun=Theme |
| 3 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pay** | past | most of Europe |  |  | coins | still |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:history:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:1`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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