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title: At an ice-cream van or tuck shop (a small school shop for snacks) yo… — Prices, change, borrowing and lending · tree and pragmatics
description: At an ice-cream van or tuck shop (a small school shop for snacks) you check the price list first and hold your money ready. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Prices, change, borrowing and lending, sentence 8

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At an ice-cream van or tuck shop (a small school shop for snacks) you check the price list first and hold your money ready.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check, hold · **To what, where:** price list, cream van, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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), 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:8
# text = At an ice-cream van or tuck shop (a small school shop for snacks) you check the price list first and hold your money ready.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **check** | present | you | the price list |  | a cream van or tuck shop |  | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your money |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn keep-15.2 «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:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:8`.

**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, R8-pos-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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