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title: A boy in Chicago is given a dollar too much in change; he says, "I t… — Shops, restaurants and libraries · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Chicago is given a dollar too much in change; he says, "I think you gave me too much," and the cashier thanks him. Who acts: boy, you, cashier. A sentence of the lesson «Shops, restaurants and libraries» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Shops, restaurants and libraries, sentence 3

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A boy in Chicago is given a dollar too much in change; he says, "I think you gave me too much," and the cashier thanks him.

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**Who acts:** boy, you, cashier · **What happens:** give, say, think, thank · **To what, where:** boy, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, you, cashier), 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:3
# text = A boy in Chicago is given a dollar too much in change; he says, "I think you gave me too much," and the cashier thanks him.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
29	cashier	cashier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	thanks	thank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | a boy in Chicago |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient dollar=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | past | you | much | boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient much=Theme |
| 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | the cashier |  | boy |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:3`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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