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title: Barter is swapping things without using money, like two football car… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: Barter is swapping things without using money, like two football cards for one Pokémon card in the playground. Who acts: Barter. A sentence of the lesson «Swaps and barter in the playground» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 0

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Barter is swapping things without using money, like two football cards for one Pokémon card in the playground.

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**Who acts:** Barter · **What happens:** swap, use · **To what, where:** things, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swaps and barter in the playground» 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 (Barter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.lesson:0
# text = Barter is swapping things without using money, like two football cards for one Pokémon card in the playground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Barter	Barter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swapping	swap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	Pokémon	Pokémon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **swap** | present · progressive | Barter | things |  |  |  | like two football cards for one Pokémon card in the playground | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | Barter *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |

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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:004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.lesson:0`.

**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): 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/).

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