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title: Tapping a card or a phone spends real money from a bank account; a g… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: Tapping a card or a phone spends real money from a bank account; a girl in Toronto who buys game coins on her mum's phone is spending her mum's real dollars. Who acts: Tapping, girl. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with
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# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 4

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Tapping a card or a phone spends real money from a bank account; a girl in Toronto who buys game coins on her mum's phone is spending her mum's real dollars.

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**Who acts:** Tapping, girl · **What happens:** tap, spend, buy · **To what, where:** card, real money, bank account, game coins, phone, real dollars

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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 (Tapping, girl), 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:4
# text = Tapping a card or a phone spends real money from a bank account; a girl in Toronto who buys game coins on her mum's phone is spending her mum's real dollars.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tapping	tap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj
7	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **tap** | gerund |  | a card and a phone |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent card=Location |
| 2 | **spend** | present | Tapping | real money |  | a bank account |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 3 | **buy** | present | a girl in Toronto | game coins |  | girl's mum's phone |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** | present · progressive | a girl in Toronto | girl's mum's real dollars |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset |

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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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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