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title: In most US states the shelf price does not include sales tax, which… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: In most US states the shelf price does not include sales tax, which is added at the till. Who acts: shelf price. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 16

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In most US states the shelf price does not include sales tax, which is added at the till.

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**Who acts:** shelf price · **What happens:** not include, add · **To what, where:** sales tax, most US states, till

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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 (shelf price), 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:16
# text = In most US states the shelf price does not include sales tax, which is added at the till.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	sales	sale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **include** | present · do-support | the shelf price | sales tax |  |  |  | in most US states *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent tax=Theme in state=Goal |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | sales tax |  | the till |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:16`.

**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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