--- title: Coins made trade easier because each one had a set size, weight and… — Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, ph… · tree and pragmatics description: Coins made trade easier because each one had a set size, weight and value, so people did not have to weigh metal every time. Who acts: Coins, one, people. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Money's history: shells, coins, paper,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/) / 7 # Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 7 Coins made trade easier because each one had a set size, weight and value, so people did not have to weigh metal every time. **Who acts:** Coins, one, people · **What happens:** make, have, not have, weigh · **To what, where:** trade, set size, metal 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 (Coins, one, 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:7 # text = Coins made trade easier because each one had a set size, weight and value, so people did not have to weigh metal every time. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 set set ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Coins | trade | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trade=Product | | 2 | **have** | past | each one | a set size and weight and value | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient | | 3 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **weigh** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | metal | | | time | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme metal=Value | 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:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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