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title: The point of a cake sale is to help, so shop biscuits count just as… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics
description: The point of a cake sale is to help, so shop biscuits count just as much as homemade cakes. Who acts: point, shop biscuits. A sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 31

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The point of a cake sale is to help, so shop biscuits count just as much as homemade cakes.

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**Who acts:** point, shop biscuits · **What happens:** be, count, point · **To what, where:** cake sale

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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 (point, shop biscuits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:31
# text = The point of a cake sale is to help, so shop biscuits count just as much as homemade cakes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	homemade	homemade	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | the point of a cake sale |  |  |  |  | help *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | present | shop biscuits |  |  |  |  | as homemade cakes | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as cake=Attribute |
| 3 | **point** |  |  | a cake sale |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:31`.

**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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