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title: Jayden's aunt says the school story of «first barter, then money» is… — Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jayden's aunt says the school story of «first barter, then money» is «lowkey contested», which means scholars quietly but really disagree about it. Who acts: aunt, scholars. A sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history course of Mova's 
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# Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 9

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Jayden's aunt says the school story of «first barter, then money» is «lowkey contested», which means scholars quietly but really disagree about it.

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**Who acts:** aunt, scholars · **What happens:** say, contest, mean, disagree · **To what, where:** school story · **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 (aunt, scholars), 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:9
# text = Jayden's aunt says the school story of «first barter, then money» is «lowkey contested», which means scholars quietly but really disagree about it.
# 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	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	barter	barter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:cop
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	contested	contest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	really	really	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jayden's aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **contest** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the school story of first barter |  |  |  | lowkey *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **disagree** | infinitive | scholars |  |  |  |  | about money; quietly *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

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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:9`.

**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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