--- title: When money stops working, for example after a war, people go back to… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics description: When money stops working, for example after a war, people go back to barter, using things everyone wants like eggs or cigarettes. Who acts: money, people, everyone. 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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, people, everyone), 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:14 # text = When money stops working, for example after a war, people go back to barter, using things everyone wants like eggs or cigarettes. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 2 mark _ _ 2 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 barter barter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cigarettes cigarette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | money | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **work** | gerund | money *not said here* | | | | | for example after a war | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for example=Beneficiary | | 3 | **go back** | present | people | | | | | to barter *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to barter=Result | | 4 | **use** | gerund | people *not said here* | things | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 5 | **want** | present | everyone | things *not said here* | | | | like eggs or cigarettes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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:004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Swaps and barter in the playground, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/13/) - next →: [Swaps and barter in the playground, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/)