Prices, change, borrowing and lending, sentence 1

If a shop assistant gives you too much change, you tell them and give back the extra, because it is honest and the assistant may have to make up the difference.

Who acts: shop assistant, you, assistant · What happens: give, tell, give back, be, have, make up · To what, where: much change, you, them, extra, difference · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» of the everyday 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 (shop assistant, you, assistant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 gives	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 assistant	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assistant	compound
4	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 change	amod
9	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 give	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 extra	det
18	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 give	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 honest	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 honest	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 honest	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 honest	cop
23	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tell	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 assistant	det
26	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 honest	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 make	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 difference	det
33	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	present	a shop assistant	much change	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient change=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	you		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	give back	infinitive	you not said here	the extra			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Theme
4	is	present	assistant			honest property	tree rules
5	have	may	the assistant				tree rules
6	make up	to-infinitive	the assistant not said here	the difference			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme difference=Pivot

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, 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:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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