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title: Contactless means paying by touching a card or phone to a reader, an… — Cards, banks and apps · tree and pragmatics
description: Contactless means paying by touching a card or phone to a reader, and real money leaves the account even though no notes change hands. Who acts: Contactless, real money, notes. A sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Cards, banks and apps, sentence 9

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Contactless means paying by touching a card or phone to a reader, and real money leaves the account even though no notes change hands.

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**Who acts:** Contactless, real money, notes · **What happens:** mean, pay, touch, leave, change · **To what, where:** card, account, hands · **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 (Contactless, real money, notes), 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:9
# text = Contactless means paying by touching a card or phone to a reader, and real money leaves the account even though no notes change hands.
# 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 ×2
1	Contactless	Contactless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	ccomp	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | Contactless |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund |  | a card or phone |  |  |  | to a reader | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme card=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | present | real money | the account |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 5 | **change** | present | no notes | hands |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

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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:007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson:9`.

**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 ×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.

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

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