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title: Theo's grandma sent twenty pounds in cash, and Theo announced it was… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo's grandma sent twenty pounds in cash, and Theo announced it was all going on games. Who acts: grandma, Theo, cash. A sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 10

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Theo's grandma sent twenty pounds in cash, and Theo announced it was all going on games.

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**Who acts:** grandma, Theo, cash · **What happens:** send, announce, go · **To what, where:** twenty pounds, cash, games · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 (grandma, Theo, cash), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:10
# text = Theo's grandma sent twenty pounds in cash, and Theo announced it was all going on games.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.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	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	ccomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **send** | past | Theo's grandma | twenty pounds |  | cash |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pound=Theme in cash=Destination |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Theo |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | cash |  |  | games |  | all *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on game=Location |

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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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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