--- title: "Fair cop" is British slang for admitting you were caught out fairly. — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics description: "Fair cop" is British slang for admitting you were caught out fairly. Who acts: Fair cop. A sentence of the lesson «Prices and change at the till» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Prices and change at the till](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/) / 15 # Prices and change at the till, sentence 15 "Fair cop" is British slang for admitting you were caught out fairly. **Who acts:** Fair cop · **What happens:** be, admit, catch out · **To what, where:** British slang, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices and change at the till» of the money 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 (Fair cop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:15 # text = "Fair cop" is British slang for admitting you were caught out fairly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cop cop NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 admitting admit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Fair cop | British slang | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund | Fair cop *not said here* | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **catch out** | past · passive | | you | | | | fairly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:money:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Prices and change at the till, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/14/) - next →: [Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/12-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/)