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title: A gift is something you give for nothing back; a swap should be abou… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: A gift is something you give for nothing back; a swap should be about equal value unless you mean it as a gift. Who acts: gift, you, swap. 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 c
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# Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 10

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A gift is something you give for nothing back; a swap should be about equal value unless you mean it as a gift.

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**Who acts:** gift, you, swap · **What happens:** be, give, mean · **To what, where:** something, swap

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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 (gift, you, swap), 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:10
# text = A gift is something you give for nothing back; a swap should be about equal value unless you mean it as a gift.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	parataxis	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **is a** | present | a gift | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for nothing=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | should | a swap |  |  |  |  | about equal value | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | swap |  |  |  | as a gift | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Topic as gift=Attribute |

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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:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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