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title: When a child buys something by mistake, parents can ask the shop for… — Mum's card: game money is real money · tree and pragmatics
description: When a child buys something by mistake, parents can ask the shop for a refund, but the money does not always come back. Who acts: child, parents, money. 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 pr
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# Mum's card: game money is real money, sentence 29

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When a child buys something by mistake, parents can ask the shop for a refund, but the money does not always come back.

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**Who acts:** child, parents, money · **What happens:** buy, ask, not come back · **To what, where:** something, shop

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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 (child, parents, money), 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:29
# text = When a child buys something by mistake, parents can ask the shop for a refund, but the money does not always come back.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	refund	refund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **buy** | present | a child | something |  |  |  | by mistake | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | parents | the shop |  |  |  | for a refund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shop=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **come back** | present · do-support | the money |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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**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.

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