--- title: A £5 note is only a bit of paper or plastic, yet the sweet shop take… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics description: A £5 note is only a bit of paper or plastic, yet the sweet shop takes it for five £1 bags of sweets, because the shopkeeper knows the next shop, the baker and the bus driver will all take it from her too. Who acts: £ 5 note, sweet shop, shopkeeper. 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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 (£ 5 note, sweet shop, shopkeeper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:1 # text = A £5 note is only a bit of paper or plastic, yet the sweet shop takes it for five £1 bags of sweets, because the shopkeeper knows the next shop, the baker and the bus driver will all take it from her too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 £ £ SYM $ _ 4 compound _ _ 3 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 23 compound _ _ 23 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shopkeeper shopkeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 baker baker NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nsubj 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 all all ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 too too ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:obl 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** | present | a £ 5 note | a bit | | | | of paper or plastic | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | present | the sweet shop | note | | | | for five 1 bags of sweets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for bag=Beneficiary | | 3 | **know** | present | the shopkeeper | the next shop | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer shop=Stimulus | | 4 | **take** | future | the shopkeeper *not said here* | shop | | | | shopkeeper *obl*; all *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. 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