--- title: Ruby's friend asked to borrow her gift card, and Ruby said no, kindl… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: Ruby's friend asked to borrow her gift card, and Ruby said no, kindly — her mum had said the card was for her, and money between friends goes wrong when the rules are fuzzy. Who acts: friend, Ruby, mum, card. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Ruby, mum, card), 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:13 # text = Ruby's friend asked to borrow her gift card, and Ruby said no, kindly — her mum had said the card was for her, and money between friends goes wrong when the rules are fuzzy. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 borrow borrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 14 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 ccomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 between between ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 33 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 fuzzy fuzzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ruby's friend | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **borrow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ruby's friend *not said here* | friend's gift card | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ruby | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | friend's mum | | | | | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | the card | | | | | for friend | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | present | money between friends | | | | | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | the rules | | | | | fuzzy *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:13`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/12/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)