--- title: A gold sovereign was a coin worth one pound; a guinea was worth 21 s… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: A gold sovereign was a coin worth one pound; a guinea was worth 21 shillings, and the word was still used for prices long after the coin stopped being made; sixpence was half a shilling. Who acts: gold sovereign, guinea, coin. 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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 (gold sovereign, guinea, coin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.lesson:19 # text = A gold sovereign was a coin worth one pound; a guinea was worth 21 shillings, and the word was still used for prices long after the coin stopped being made; sixpence was half a shilling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 sovereign sovereign NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 6 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 shillings shilling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 27 after after SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 xcomp _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 sixpence sixpence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 38 det:predet _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 shilling shilling NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | a gold sovereign | worth one pound | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | a guinea | worth 21 shillings | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | past · passive | | the word | | | still | for prices; long *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for price=Eventuality | | 4 | **stop** | past | the coin | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **make** | gerund · passive | the coin *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 6 | **is a** | past | a gold sovereign *not said here* | half shilling | | | | | tree rules | 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:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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 ×1, 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. 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