--- title: A cheque is a written note telling your bank to pay someone; few peo… — Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, ph… · tree and pragmatics description: A cheque is a written note telling your bank to pay someone; few people use cheques now. Who acts: cheque, written note, few 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 tree and the pragmatic --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones, sentence 9 A cheque is a written note telling your bank to pay someone; few people use cheques now. **Who acts:** cheque, written note, few people · **What happens:** write, be, tell, pay, use · **To what, where:** written note, bank, someone, cheques · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (cheque, written note, few 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:9 # text = A cheque is a written note telling your bank to pay someone; few people use cheques now. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cheque cheque NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 cheques cheque NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 now now ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a cheque | a written note | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a written note *not said here* | | your bank | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent bank=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a written note *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Asset | | 5 | **use** | present | few people | cheques | | | now | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheque=Patient | 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:9`. **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. **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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