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title: You keep the receipt until you are sure an item works, and a faulty… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: You keep the receipt until you are sure an item works, and a faulty item can be taken back to be exchanged or refunded (given your money back). Who acts: You, item. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 15

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You keep the receipt until you are sure an item works, and a faulty item can be taken back to be exchanged or refunded (given your money back).

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**Who acts:** You, item · **What happens:** keep, be, work, take back, exchange, refund · **To what, where:** receipt, faulty item, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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 (You, item), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:15
# text = You keep the receipt until you are sure an item works, and a faulty item can be taken back to be exchanged or refunded (given your money back).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	faulty	faulty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	refunded	refund	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **keep** | present | You | the receipt |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent receipt=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present | a item |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take back** | can · passive |  | a faulty item |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **exchange** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **refund** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **give back** | participle |  | your money |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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