--- title: Salt was very valuable because it stopped food going bad; the word "… — Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, ph… · tree and pragmatics description: Salt was very valuable because it stopped food going bad; the word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt, though historians argue about whether Roman soldiers were really paid in salt. Who acts: Salt, food, word, historians. 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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 (Salt, food, word, historians), 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:5 # text = Salt was very valuable because it stopped food going bad; the word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt, though historians argue about whether Roman soldiers were really paid in salt. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 salary salary NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Latin Latin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 21 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 28 about about SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 29 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 33 really really ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 ccomp _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Salt | | | | | valuable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | past | salt | food | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality food=Eventuality | | 3 | **go** | gerund | food *not said here* | | | | | bad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | the word | | | the Latin word for salt | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | historians | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pay** | past · passive | | Roman soldiers | | salt | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | 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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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