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description: With strangers you need more: written promises, laws everyone can see, fair weights on the scales, and money that both sides accept. Who acts: you, everyone, sides. A sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history course of Mova's primary s
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# Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 6

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With strangers you need more: written promises, laws everyone can see, fair weights on the scales, and money that both sides accept.

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**Who acts:** you, everyone, sides · **What happens:** need, write, see, accept · **To what, where:** more, laws, money

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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 (you, everyone, sides), 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:6
# text = With strangers you need more: written promises, laws everyone can see, fair weights on the scales, and money that both sides accept.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
10	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	weights	weight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
27	.	.	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 | **need** | present | you | more and written promises and laws and fair weights on the scales and money |  |  |  | with strangers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | can | everyone | laws *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus |
| 4 | **accept** | present | both sides | money |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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