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title: He writes on the back of an envelope: food £45, bus fares £20, power… — Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: He writes on the back of an envelope: food £45, bus fares £20, power £15. Who acts: Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★, sentence 4

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He writes on the back of an envelope: food £45, bus fares £20, power £15.

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**Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** back

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★» 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 (Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:062-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums.lesson:4
# text = He writes on the back of an envelope: food £45, bus fares £20, power £15.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 062-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums.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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	amod	_	_
12	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fares	fare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	15	nmod	_	_
17	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	appos	_	_
21	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Dad |  |  | the back of a envelope and food and bus fares and power |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination |

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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:062-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums.lesson:4`.

**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.

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

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