--- title: On the island of Yap, giant stone wheels were used as money; some we… — Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, ph… · tree and pragmatics description: On the island of Yap, giant stone wheels were used as money; some were too big to move, so people simply remembered who owned each one. Who acts: some, people. 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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 (some, people), 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:11 # text = On the island of Yap, giant stone wheels were used as money; some were too big to move, so people simply remembered who owned each one. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Yap yap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 simply simply ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 owned own VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past · passive | | giant stone wheels | | the island of Yap | | as money | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as money=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | past | some | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **remember** | past | people | | | | | simply *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **own** | past | | each one | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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:005-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones.lesson:11`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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