--- title: If you ask for more pocket money, you explain calmly why and accept… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics description: If you ask for more pocket money, you explain calmly why and accept the answer, because parents plan for the whole family. Who acts: you, parents. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Pocket money, saving and spending](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/) / 6 # Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 6 If you ask for more pocket money, you explain calmly why and accept the answer, because parents plan for the whole family. **Who acts:** you, parents · **What happens:** ask, explain, accept, plan · **To what, where:** answer 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, parents), 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:6 # text = If you ask for more pocket money, you explain calmly why and accept the answer, because parents plan for the whole family. # 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 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 6 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 accept accept VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 plan plan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | for more pocket money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **accept** | present | you *not said here* | the answer | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | | 4 | **plan** | present | parents | | | | | for the whole family | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [Pocket money, saving and spending, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/5/) - next →: [Pocket money, saving and spending, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/)