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title: Keep money in a zipped pocket or a closed wallet, because it is hard… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep money in a zipped pocket or a closed wallet, because it is harder to lose or steal. Who acts: you, it. 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 clause.
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# Money in town and staying safe in crowds, sentence 9

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Keep money in a zipped pocket or a closed wallet, because it is harder to lose or steal.

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**Who acts:** you, it · **What happens:** keep, close, be, lose, steal · **To what, where:** money, zipped pocket

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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 (you, it), 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:9
# text = Keep money in a zipped pocket or a closed wallet, because it is harder to lose or steal.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	zipped	zipped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | money |  | a zipped pocket or a closed wallet |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in pocket=Location |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **steal** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R8-pos-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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