--- title: If a shop assistant gives you too much change, you tell them and giv… — Prices, change, borrowing and lending · tree and pragmatics description: If a shop assistant gives you too much change, you tell them and give back the extra, because it is honest and the assistant may have to make up the difference. Who acts: shop assistant, you, assistant. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shop assistant, you, assistant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:1 # text = If a shop assistant gives you too much change, you tell them and give back the extra, because it is honest and the assistant may have to make up the difference. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 262-prices-change-and-borrowing.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 _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 assistant assistant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 assistant assistant NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a shop assistant | much change | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient change=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | them *= they* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **give back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the extra | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | assistant | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | may | the assistant | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make up** | to-infinitive | the assistant *not said here* | the difference | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme difference=Pivot | 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:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:1`. **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: [Prices, change, borrowing and lending, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/0/) - next →: [Prices, change, borrowing and lending, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/)