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title: Paying back money you spent without permission is a fair way to make… — Mum's card: game money is real money · tree and pragmatics
description: Paying back money you spent without permission is a fair way to make things right. Who acts: you, Paying. 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 31

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Paying back money you spent without permission is a fair way to make things right.

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**Who acts:** you, Paying · **What happens:** pay back, spend, be, make · **To what, where:** money, fair way, things

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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 (you, Paying), 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:31
# text = Paying back money you spent without permission is a fair way to make things right.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **pay back** | gerund |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 2 | **spend** | past | you | money *not said here* |  |  |  | without permission | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Paying | a fair way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | things |  |  |  | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |

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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:31`.

**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, 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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