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title: In a sit-down restaurant in the USA people usually leave a tip of ab… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a sit-down restaurant in the USA people usually leave a tip of about 15 to 20 percent, because tips are part of a waiter's pay there; on a $40 bill that is about $6 to $8. Who acts: people, tips, waiter. A sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipp
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# Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 6

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In a sit-down restaurant in the USA people usually leave a tip of about 15 to 20 percent, because tips are part of a waiter's pay there; on a $40 bill that is about $6 to $8.

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**Who acts:** people, tips, waiter · **What happens:** leave, be, pay · **To what, where:** tip, sit restaurant, part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 (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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:6
# text = In a sit-down restaurant in the USA people usually leave a tip of about 15 to 20 percent, because tips are part of a waiter's pay there; on a $40 bill that is about $6 to $8.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	sit	sit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
6	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	25	mark	_	_
23	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
28	waiter	waiter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	$	$	SYM	$	_	37	compound	_	_
36	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
37	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	about	about	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	$	$	SYM	$	_	37	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nmod
42	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	$	$	SYM	$	_	37	nmod	_	_
45	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **leave** | present | people | a tip of 15 percent |  | a sit restaurant in the USA |  | on a $ bill; usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tip=Theme in restaurant=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | tips | part |  |  |  | of a waiter's pay | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** |  | a waiter |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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