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title: "Service charge" means an extra fee added to the bill (UK). — Soft words for hard things: business and adverti… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Service charge" means an extra fee added to the bill (UK). Who acts: Service charge. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 6

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"Service charge" means an extra fee added to the bill (UK).

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**Who acts:** Service charge · **What happens:** mean, add · **To what, where:** extra fee

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms 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 (Service charge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:6
# text = "Service charge" means an extra fee added to the bill (UK).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Service charge | a extra fee |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Topic |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a extra fee *not said here* |  |  |  | to the bill | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to bill=Co-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:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:6`.

**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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