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title: Jayden kept a notebook of everything he bought with his gift cards;… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics
description: Jayden kept a notebook of everything he bought with his gift cards; at the end of the year he read it and saw that most of the things he had paid for he had never really used. Who acts: Jayden. A sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» of the everyday course of Mova's 
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# Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 17

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Jayden kept a notebook of everything he bought with his gift cards; at the end of the year he read it and saw that most of the things he had paid for he had never really used.

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**Who acts:** Jayden · **What happens:** keep, buy, read, see, pay, not use · **To what, where:** notebook, end, things, most · **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 (Jayden), 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:17
# text = Jayden kept a notebook of everything he bought with his gift cards; at the end of the year he read it and saw that most of the things he had paid for he had never really used.
# 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 ×1
1	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	notebook	notebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod
37	really	really	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **keep** | past | Jayden | a notebook of everything |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | past | Jayden |  |  |  |  | with Jayden's gift cards | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | past | Jayden | notebook |  |  | at the end of the year |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at end=Value |
| 4 | **see** | past | Jayden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pay** | past · perfect | Jayden | the things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Asset |
| 6 | **not** **use** | past · perfect | Jayden | most of the things |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient |

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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:17`.

**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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