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title: If a country prints far too much money while there are no more thing… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics
description: If a country prints far too much money while there are no more things to buy, prices go up and nobody is richer. Who acts: country, more things, prices, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «What money is and why people accept it» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# What money is and why people accept it, sentence 10

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If a country prints far too much money while there are no more things to buy, prices go up and nobody is richer.

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**Who acts:** country, more things, prices, nobody · **What happens:** print, be, buy, go up · **To what, where:** much money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What money is and why people accept it» of the money 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 (country, more things, prices, nobody), 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:10
# text = If a country prints far too much money while there are no more things to buy, prices go up and nobody is richer.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	prints	print	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
18	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a country | much money |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | more things |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | more things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go up** | present | prices |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |

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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:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:10`.

**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.

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

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