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title: Zara got a gift card for a game she does not even play, felt a littl… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara got a gift card for a game she does not even play, felt a little disappointed, thanked her uncle anyway, and swapped it with her mum for one she could use. Who acts: Zara, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho
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# Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 12

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Zara got a gift card for a game she does not even play, felt a little disappointed, thanked her uncle anyway, and swapped it with her mum for one she could use.

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**Who acts:** Zara, mum · **What happens:** get, not play, feel, thank, swap, use · **To what, where:** gift card, game, uncle

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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 (Zara, mum), 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:12
# text = Zara got a gift card for a game she does not even play, felt a little disappointed, thanked her uncle anyway, and swapped it with her mum for one she could use.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
18	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	swapped	swap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Zara | a gift card |  |  |  | for a game | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent card=Theme for game=Source |
| 2 | **not** **play** | present · do-support | Zara | a game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Zara *not said here* |  |  |  |  | disappointed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Zara *not said here* |  | Zara's uncle |  |  | anyway *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme |
| 5 | **swap** | past | Zara *not said here* | game |  |  |  | with Zara's mum; for one | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Theme with mum=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **use** | could | mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, 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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