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title: Vivid example: in Toronto, big sister Maya opens her first pay slip… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Vivid example: in Toronto, big sister Maya opens her first pay slip from the cinema, shouts "I'm RICH!", then goes quiet: "Hang on, where's the rest? Who acts: Vivid example, I, example. A sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with
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# Money, work and the big choices, sentence 2

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Vivid example: in Toronto, big sister Maya opens her first pay slip from the cinema, shouts "I'm RICH!", then goes quiet: "Hang on, where's the rest?

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**Who acts:** Vivid example, I, example · **What happens:** open, shout, be, go, hang on, slip · **To what, where:** first pay slip, Toronto, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life 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 (Vivid example, I, example), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:2
# text = Vivid example: in Toronto, big sister Maya opens her first pay slip from the cinema, shouts "I'm RICH!", then goes quiet: "Hang on, where's the rest?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
10	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
13	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	RICH	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
36	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Vivid example | example's first pay slip |  | Toronto |  | from the cinema | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Vivid example *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | present | Vivid example *not said here* |  |  |  | then | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hang on** *in a quote* | infinitive | Vivid example *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the rest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **slip** |  | example |  |  |  |  |  | nom slip «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:2`.

**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, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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