--- title: In 1299 the money-changers' guild of Florence banned the new digits… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1299 the money-changers' guild of Florence banned the new digits in account books, fearing they were easy to alter; good ideas can take centuries to win. Who acts: guild, digits, good ideas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guild, digits, good ideas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:6 # text = In 1299 the money-changers' guild of Florence banned the new digits in account books, fearing they were easy to alter; good ideas can take centuries to win. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1299 1299 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 changers changer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ' 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 guild guild NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Florence Florence PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 digits digit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 fearing fear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 alter alter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 30 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ban** | past | the money changers's guild of Florence | the new digits | | 1299 | | in account books | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer digit=Theme | | 2 | **fear** | gerund | the money changers's guild of Florence *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | digits *= digit* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **alter** | to-infinitive | digits *= digit* *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **take** | can | good ideas | | | | century | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **win** | to-infinitive | good ideas *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, let…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/5/) - next →: [Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, let…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/)