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title: A fair swap is one both people agree to freely; forcing someone with… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: A fair swap is one both people agree to freely; forcing someone with a threat is bullying, not trading. Who acts: fair swap, people, forcing. 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 ever
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# Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 6

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A fair swap is one both people agree to freely; forcing someone with a threat is bullying, not trading.

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**Who acts:** fair swap, people, forcing · **What happens:** be, agree, force · **To what, where:** one, someone

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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 (fair swap, people, forcing), 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:6
# text = A fair swap is one both people agree to freely; forcing someone with a threat is bullying, not trading.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
13	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a fair swap | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | both people |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **force** | gerund |  |  | someone |  |  | with a threat | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | forcing |  |  |  |  | bully *property* | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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