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title: Old coins and notes can stop being accepted in shops; some banks sti… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics
description: Old coins and notes can stop being accepted in shops; some banks still swap them, and collectors may want rare ones. Who acts: Old coins, banks, collectors. 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 the
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# What money is and why people accept it, sentence 11

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Old coins and notes can stop being accepted in shops; some banks still swap them, and collectors may want rare ones.

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**Who acts:** Old coins, banks, collectors · **What happens:** stop, accept, swap, want · **To what, where:** shops, things, rare ones

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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 (Old coins, banks, collectors), 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:11
# text = Old coins and notes can stop being accepted in shops; some banks still swap them, and collectors may want rare ones.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
4	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	collectors	collector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
22	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **stop** | can | Old coins and notes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **accept** | gerund · passive | Old coins and notes *not said here* |  |  | shops |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **swap** | present | some banks | things *= thing* |  |  | still |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | may | collectors | rare ones |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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