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title: The first known coins were made in Lydia, in what is now Turkey, aro… — Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The first known coins were made in Lydia, in what is now Turkey, around 600 BCE; coins appeared in China and India around the same time. Who acts: coins. 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 with 
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# Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 18

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The first known coins were made in Lydia, in what is now Turkey, around 600 BCE; coins appeared in China and India around the same time.

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**Who acts:** coins · **What happens:** know, make, be, appear · **To what, where:** first known coins, Lydia, Turkey, China

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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 (coins), 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:18
# text = The first known coins were made in Lydia, in what is now Turkey, around 600 BCE; coins appeared in China and India around the same time.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lydia	Lydia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	advcl:relcl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
18	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the first known coins |  | Lydia |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | Turkey |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **appear** | past | coins |  |  | China and India | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location |

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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:18`.

**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 ×2. **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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