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title: A girl in Manchester kept her money in an open back pocket at a fair… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Manchester kept her money in an open back pocket at a fair; when she went to pay for a ride, it was gone, and she spent the evening watching others. Who acts: girl, money. A sentence of the lesson «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 19

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A girl in Manchester kept her money in an open back pocket at a fair; when she went to pay for a ride, it was gone, and she spent the evening watching others.

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**Who acts:** girl, money · **What happens:** keep, go, pay, be, spend, watch · **To what, where:** money, open back pocket, others

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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 (girl, 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:19
# text = A girl in Manchester kept her money in an open back pocket at a fair; when she went to pay for a ride, it was gone, and she spent the evening watching others.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
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	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
36	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **keep** | past | a girl in Manchester | girl's money |  | a open back pocket |  | at a fair | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in pocket=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a ride | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ride=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | money |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spend** | past | girl |  |  |  | evening |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **watch** | gerund | girl *not said here* | others |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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:276-money-and-crowds-in-town.lesson:19`.

**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. **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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