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title: In London, Leon finds a £5 note and thinks of sweets, then of Dad co… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics
description: In London, Leon finds a £5 note and thinks of sweets, then of Dad counting coins at the till. Who acts: Leon, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 26

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In London, Leon finds a £5 note and thinks of sweets, then of Dad counting coins at the till.

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**Who acts:** Leon, Dad · **What happens:** find, think, count · **To what, where:** 5 note, London, coins, till

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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 (Leon, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:26
# text = In London, Leon finds a £5 note and thinks of sweets, then of Dad counting coins at the till.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Leon	Leon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
8	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
19	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Leon | a 5 note |  | London |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Leon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of sweets | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **count** | gerund | Dad | coins |  | the till | then |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |

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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:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:26`.

**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): 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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