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title: That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've… — Cards, banks and apps · tree and pragmatics
description: That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month." Who acts: Mum, app, we. A sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cards, banks and apps, sentence 7

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That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."

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**Who acts:** Mum, app, we · **What happens:** open, groan, say, spend · **To what, where:** banking app, eighty dollars, takeaways · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» 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 (Mum, app, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson:7
# text = That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 007-cards-banks-and-apps.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	banking	banking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
18	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Mum | Mum's banking app |  |  | night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location app=Theme |
| 2 | **groan** | present | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the app |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **spend** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | eighty dollars |  |  | month | on takeaways *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset on takeaway=Goal |

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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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**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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