--- title: Money can be cash (coins and notes) or digital money (numbers kept b… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics description: Money can be cash (coins and notes) or digital money (numbers kept by a bank and spent with a card or phone); both buy the same things. Who acts: Money, both. 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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, both), 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:9 # text = Money can be cash (coins and notes) or digital money (numbers kept by a bank and spent with a card or phone); both buy the same things. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 cash cash NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 digital digital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 29 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | can | Money | cash or digital money and numbers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | participle | | numbers *not said here* | | | | by a bank | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by bank=Location | | 3 | **spend** | participle | | | | | | with a card or phone | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **buy** | infinitive | both | the same things | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:9`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/8/) - next →: [What money is and why people accept it, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/)