--- title: A shiny button or a brilliant yo-yo is not money, because nobody has… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics description: A shiny button or a brilliant yo-yo is not money, because nobody has agreed to treat it as money; money works only while people trust it. Who acts: shiny button, nobody, money, 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 (shiny button, nobody, money, 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:2 # text = A shiny button or a brilliant yo-yo is not money, because nobody has agreed to treat it as money; money works only while people trust it. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 treat treat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a shiny button or a brilliant yo yo | money | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present · perfect | nobody | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **treat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | money | | | | as money | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as money=Attribute | | 4 | **work** | present | money | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **trust** | present | people | money | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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:2`. **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, R6-punct-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/1/) - next →: [What money is and why people accept it, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/)