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title: A girl in Texas sees a $10 toy and brings exactly $10, but in most U… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Texas sees a $10 toy and brings exactly $10, but in most US states sales tax is added at the till, so she needs a little more; when the toy turns out broken in the box, she takes it back with the receipt. Who acts: girl, toy. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of 
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 4

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A girl in Texas sees a $10 toy and brings exactly $10, but in most US states sales tax is added at the till, so she needs a little more; when the toy turns out broken in the box, she takes it back with the receipt.

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**Who acts:** girl, toy · **What happens:** see, bring, add, need, turn out, break · **To what, where:** $ toy, sales tax, most US states, more, box, toy

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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 (girl, toy), 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:4
# text = A girl in Texas sees a $10 toy and brings exactly $10, but in most US states sales tax is added at the till, so she needs a little more; when the toy turns out broken in the box, she takes it back with the receipt.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	$	$	SYM	$	_	9	compound	_	_
8	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	$	$	SYM	$	_	11	obj	_	_
14	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
19	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
21	sales	sale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	xcomp	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	back	back	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **see** | present | a girl in Texas | a $ toy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toy=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bring** | present | a girl in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent $=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | sales tax |  | most US states |  | at the till | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **need** | present | girl | more |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 5 | **turn out** | present | the toy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **break** | participle | the toy *not said here* |  |  | the box |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location |
| 7 | **take back** | present | girl | toy |  |  |  | with the receipt | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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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