--- title: Long ago a British note could be swapped at the bank for gold; today… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago a British note could be swapped at the bank for gold; today money is not backed by gold but by the government and people's trust. Who acts: people. 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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 (people), 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:13 # text = Long ago a British note could be swapped at the bank for gold; today money is not backed by gold but by the government and people's trust. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 swapped swap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 backed back VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **swap** | could · passive | | a British note | | the bank | | for gold; ago *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for gold=Co-Theme | | 2 | **not** **back** | present · passive | | today money | | | | by gold but the government and people's trust | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme by gold=Trajectory | | 3 | **trust** | | people | | | | | | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:13`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [What money is and why people accept it, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/11/) - next →: [What money is and why people accept it, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/)