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title: Money has changed its shape many times, but its job has stayed the s… — Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, ph… · tree and pragmatics
description: Money has changed its shape many times, but its job has stayed the same: to buy, to save and to measure what things are worth. Who acts: Money, job, things. A sentence of the lesson «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 0

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Money has changed its shape many times, but its job has stayed the same: to buy, to save and to measure what things are worth.

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**Who acts:** Money, job, things · **What happens:** change, stay, buy, save, measure, be · **To what, where:** shape

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» 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 (Money, job, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:005-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones.lesson:0
# text = Money has changed its shape many times, but its job has stayed the same: to buy, to save and to measure what things are worth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 005-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones.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	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **change** | present · perfect | Money | Money's shape |  |  | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | present · perfect | Money's job |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | Money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **measure** | to-infinitive | Money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | what things |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **job** |  | Money |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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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