--- title: Kai earned his gift card himself, selling old toys at a car boot sal… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: Kai earned his gift card himself, selling old toys at a car boot sale (a market where people sell old things from their cars) on a freezing Sunday, and because he remembered the cold, he spent it far more carefully than any birthday money before. Who acts: Kai, people. 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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 (Kai, people), 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:9 # text = Kai earned his gift card himself, selling old toys at a car boot sale (a market where people sell old things from their cars) on a freezing Sunday, and because he remembered the cold, he spent it far more carefully than any birthday money before. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 earned earn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sell sell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 30 freezing freezing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 31 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 39 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 44 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 45 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:advmod 45 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:advmod 46 than than ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 49 det _ _ 48 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 50 before before ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **earn** | past | Kai | Kai's gift card | | | | Kai *obl:unmarked* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 2 | **sell** | gerund | Kai *not said here* | old toys | | a boot sale | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent toy=Theme at sale=Asset | | 3 | **sell** | present | people | old things | | cards's cars | sunday | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **remember** | past | Kai | the cold | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | | 5 | **spend** | past | Kai | cold | | | | than any birthday money; carefully *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | 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:9`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/8/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)