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title: The first coins were made about 2,600 years ago in Lydia, a land in… — Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, ph… · tree and pragmatics
description: The first coins were made about 2,600 years ago in Lydia, a land in what is now Turkey. A sentence of the lesson «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 6

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The first coins were made about 2,600 years ago in Lydia, a land in what is now Turkey.

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**What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** first coins, Lydia, Turkey

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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: 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:6
# text = The first coins were made about 2,600 years ago in Lydia, a land in what is now Turkey.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	2,600	2,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lydia	Lydia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | past · passive |  | the first coins |  | Lydia |  | ago *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Turkey |  |  | now |  | 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:005-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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