Prices and change at the till, sentence 3
People make mistakes, so be honest both ways: if the new lad gives you £1 too much change, say so, and if the till charges more than the shelf says, point it out politely.
Who acts: People, new lad, till, shelf · What happens: make, be, give, say, charge, point out · To what, where: mistakes, much change, you, more, till · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices and change at the till» 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 (People, new lad, till, shelf), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honest | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 honest | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 honest | cop |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 make | parataxis |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 ways | det |
| 9 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 honest | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 gives | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lad | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lad | amod |
| 14 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gives | nsubj |
| 15 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 gives | iobj |
| 17 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 gives | obj |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 £ | nummod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 change | amod |
| 21 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gives | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gives | punct |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | parataxis |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 say | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 charges | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 charges | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 till | det |
| 29 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 charges | nsubj |
| 30 | charges | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | conj |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 charges | obj |
| 32 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 35 says | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shelf | det |
| 34 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 35 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 more | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 says | punct |
| 37 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 point | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 point | compound:prt |
| 40 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 37 point | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | People | mistakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | both ways obl:unmarked; honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | the new lad | much change | you | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | charge a condition, not said to happen | present | the till | more | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location more=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | the shelf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | point out | infinitive | till | politely property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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, 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:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:3.
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 ×2. 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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