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title: Zara's dad asked her to pay back what she had spent from her pocket… — Mum's card: game money is real money · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara's dad asked her to pay back what she had spent from her pocket money, and it took six weeks. Who acts: dad, Zara, it. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's card: game money is real money» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mum's card: game money is real money, sentence 21

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Zara's dad asked her to pay back what she had spent from her pocket money, and it took six weeks.

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**Who acts:** dad, Zara, it · **What happens:** ask, pay back, spend, take · **To what, where:** Zara, pocket money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's card: game money is real money» 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 (dad, Zara, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:414-mums-card.lesson:21
# text = Zara's dad asked her to pay back what she had spent from her pocket money, and it took six weeks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 414-mums-card.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Zara's dad |  | Zara |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pay back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Zara's dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
| 3 | **spend** | past · perfect | Zara |  |  | Zara's pocket money |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | it |  |  |  | week |  | 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:414-mums-card.lesson:21`.

**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): R7-rel-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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