--- title: In the USA people usually tip a waiter about 15 to 20 percent of the… — Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaura… · tree and pragmatics description: In the USA people usually tip a waiter about 15 to 20 percent of the bill, because tips are part of the waiter's pay. Who acts: people, tips, waiter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, tips, waiter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:6 # text = In the USA people usually tip a waiter about 15 to 20 percent of the bill, because tips are part of the waiter's pay. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 311-good-manners-and-safety-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 ×1 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 6 obl _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 tip tip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 waiter waiter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case 12 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 waiter waiter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tip** | present | people | a waiter 15 | | the USA | | 20 percent of the bill *obl*; usually *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent waiter=Theme in usa=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | present | tips | part | | | | of the waiter's pay | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | | the waiter | | | | | | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:6`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Good manners and safety in town: shops…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/5/) - next →: [Good manners and safety in town: shops…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/)