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title: A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not ne… — Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not need to weigh metal every time. Who acts: stamp, traders. 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 its dependency tree and the pr
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# Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 19

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A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not need to weigh metal every time.

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**Who acts:** stamp, traders · **What happens:** promise, not need, weigh · **To what, where:** weight, metal

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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 (stamp, traders), 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:19
# text = A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not need to weigh metal every 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): R5-strong ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | a ruler's stamp on a coin | stamp's weight |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **need** | past · do-support | traders |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **weigh** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | traders *not said here* | metal |  |  | time |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme metal=Value |

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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:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×3. **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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