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title: A late library book is returned as soon as possible, because some li… — Shops, restaurants and libraries · tree and pragmatics
description: A late library book is returned as soon as possible, because some libraries charge fines. Who acts: libraries. A sentence of the lesson «Shops, restaurants and libraries» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Shops, restaurants and libraries, sentence 13

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A late library book is returned as soon as possible, because some libraries charge fines.

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**Who acts:** libraries · **What happens:** return, charge · **To what, where:** late library book, fines

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shops, restaurants and libraries» 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 (libraries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries.lesson:13
# text = A late library book is returned as soon as possible, because some libraries charge fines.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	fines	fine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **return** | present · passive |  | a late library book |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **charge** | present | some libraries | fines |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fine=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:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries.lesson:13`.

**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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