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title: In the USA the shelf price may not include sales tax, which is added… — Shops, restaurants and libraries · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA the shelf price may not include sales tax, which is added at the checkout. Who acts: shelf price. 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 9

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In the USA the shelf price may not include sales tax, which is added at the checkout.

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**Who acts:** shelf price · **What happens:** not include, add · **To what, where:** sales tax, USA, checkout

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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 (shelf price), 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:9
# text = In the USA the shelf price may not include sales tax, which is added at the checkout.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	sales	sale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	checkout	checkout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **not** **include** | may | the shelf price | sales tax |  |  |  | in the USA *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent tax=Theme in usa=Goal |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | sales tax |  | the checkout |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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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