Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 15
If you get too much change, the honest thing is to hand it back; if you get too little, say so politely.
Who acts: you, honest thing · What happens: get, be, say · To what, where: much change, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys 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 (you, honest thing), 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 | _ | 3 get | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hand | advcl |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 change | amod |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hand | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hand | mark |
| 13 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 say | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hand | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 hand | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 say | advcl |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 little | advmod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 say | obj |
| 25 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 23 say | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | you | much change | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the honest thing | hand property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | you | little | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent so=Topic |
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:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:15.
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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