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title: If someone asks for money in the street, stay with your adult and le… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone asks for money in the street, stay with your adult and let them decide; it is not your job to decide. Who acts: someone, you, arms, money. A sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 12

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If someone asks for money in the street, stay with your adult and let them decide; it is not your job to decide.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, arms, money · **What happens:** ask, stay, let, decide, not be · **To what, where:** street, arms, job

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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 (someone, you, arms, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:12
# text = If someone asks for money in the street, stay with your adult and let them decide; it is not your job to decide.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 276-money-and-crowds-in-town.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  | the street |  | for money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your adult | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **decide** | infinitive | arms *= arm* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | money | your job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **decide** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-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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