--- title: Money does three jobs: it buys things, it keeps its value so you can… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics description: Money does three jobs: it buys things, it keeps its value so you can save it for later, and it tells you what things cost so you can compare them. Who acts: Money, you, things. 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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 (Money, you, things), 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:3 # text = Money does three jobs: it buys things, it keeps its value so you can save it for later, and it tells you what things cost so you can compare them. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound 28 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 compare compare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Money | three jobs | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 2 | **buy** | present | money | things | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | money | money's value | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Theme | | 4 | **save** | can | you | money | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme for late=Source | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | money | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **cost** | present | things | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | | 7 | **compare** | can | you | things *= thing* | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 8 | **value** | | money | | | | | | nom value «cognition transitive»: 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/2/) - next →: [What money is and why people accept it, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/)