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title: Pickpockets look for open bags and back pockets in busy places, beca… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: Pickpockets look for open bags and back pockets in busy places, because money there is easy to take. Who acts: Pickpockets, 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 pragmatics of every 
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# Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 22

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Pickpockets look for open bags and back pockets in busy places, because money there is easy to take.

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**Who acts:** Pickpockets, money · **What happens:** look, be, take

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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 (Pickpockets, 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:22
# text = Pickpockets look for open bags and back pockets in busy places, because money there is easy to take.
# 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): no change
1	Pickpockets	pickpocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **look** | present | Pickpockets |  |  |  |  | for open bags and back pockets in busy places | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bag=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | money |  |  | there |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:22`.

**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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