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title: A girl in Sydney let a stranger stand close behind her at a cash mac… — Shops, restaurants and libraries · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Sydney let a stranger stand close behind her at a cash machine; he saw her mum's PIN and later money was taken from the account. Who acts: girl, stranger. A sentence of the lesson «Shops, restaurants and libraries» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Shops, restaurants and libraries, sentence 16

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A girl in Sydney let a stranger stand close behind her at a cash machine; he saw her mum's PIN and later money was taken from the account.

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**Who acts:** girl, stranger · **What happens:** let, stand, see, take · **To what, where:** cash machine, PIN, money, account

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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 (girl, stranger), 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:16
# text = A girl in Sydney let a stranger stand close behind her at a cash machine; he saw her mum's PIN and later money was taken from the account.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	_	5	xcomp	_	_
9	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	PIN	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **let** | past | a girl in Sydney |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | a stranger |  |  | a cash machine |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind machine=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | stranger | girl's mum's PIN |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pin=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | past · passive |  | money |  | the account |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from account=Initial\_Location |

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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:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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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