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title: A swap made with a threat is not a swap at all but bullying, and a "… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: A swap made with a threat is not a swap at all but bullying, and a "swap" where you give far more than you get is really a gift, so call it one if that is what you want. Who acts: swap, you, that. A sentence of the lesson «Swaps and barter in the playground» of the money course of Mova's primary sch
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# Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 3

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A swap made with a threat is not a swap at all but bullying, and a "swap" where you give far more than you get is really a gift, so call it one if that is what you want.

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**Who acts:** swap, you, that · **What happens:** make, not be, give, get, be, call · **To what, where:** swap, all, more, gift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (swap, you, that), 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:3
# text = A swap made with a threat is not a swap at all but bullying, and a "swap" where you give far more than you get is really a gift, so call it one if that is what you want.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	obj	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	really	really	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	xcomp	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	advcl	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **make** | participle |  | a swap *not said here* |  |  |  | with a threat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a swap | a swap but bullying |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present | you | more |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | a gift |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | infinitive |  | swap |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 7 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | that | a swap but bullying |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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: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): no change. **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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