--- title: If one person knows much more about what things are worth, they can… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics description: If one person knows much more about what things are worth, they can get the better deal, so find out values before you swap. Who acts: one person, things, you. 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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 (one person, things, you), 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:9 # text = If one person knows much more about what things are worth, they can get the better deal, so find out values before you swap. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 5 much much ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 values value NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 swap swap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one person | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | things | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | can | things *= thing* | the better deal | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | | 4 | **find out** | infinitive | | values | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Topic | | 5 | **swap** | present | you | | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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:9`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/7/) - next →: [Swaps and barter in the playground, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/)