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title: Showing off money makes it more likely to be stolen. — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: Showing off money makes it more likely to be stolen. Who acts: Showing, money. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 20

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Showing off money makes it more likely to be stolen.

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**Who acts:** Showing, money · **What happens:** show off, make, steal · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday 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 (Showing, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:20
# text = Showing off money makes it more likely to be stolen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 260-learning-skills-and-coins.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	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **show off** | gerund |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Showing | money |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **steal** | to-infinitive · passive | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |

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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:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:20`.

**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.

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

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