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title: When Liam asks who made the first coin, his Geordie gran says «ask G… — Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned t… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Liam asks who made the first coin, his Geordie gran says «ask Google, pet»: pet is how people in north-east England say love or dear. Who acts: Liam, Geordie gran, people. A sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history course of Mova
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# Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 12

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When Liam asks who made the first coin, his Geordie gran says «ask Google, pet»: pet is how people in north-east England say love or dear.

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**Who acts:** Liam, Geordie gran, people · **What happens:** ask, make, say, be · **To what, where:** first coin, pet, Google · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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 (Liam, Geordie gran, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:12
# text = When Liam asks who made the first coin, his Geordie gran says «ask Google, pet»: pet is how people in north-east England say love or dear.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Geordie	geordie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
16	Google	Google	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:vocative
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	north	north	ADV	RB	_	28	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	east	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
31	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Liam |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | the first coin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Product |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Liam's Geordie gran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | pet | Google |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | people in east England |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |

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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:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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