--- title: People make mistakes, so be honest both ways: if the new lad gives y… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics description: People make mistakes, so be honest both ways: if the new lad gives you £1 too much change, say so, and if the till charges more than the shelf says, point it out politely. Who acts: People, new lad, till, shelf. 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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 (People, new lad, till, shelf), 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:3 # text = People make mistakes, so be honest both ways: if the new lad gives you £1 too much change, say so, and if the till charges more than the shelf says, point it out politely. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 8 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 £ £ SYM $ _ 15 obj _ _ 18 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 23 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 29 till till NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 charges charge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 32 than than SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advcl 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 point point VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 40 politely politely ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | People | mistakes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | both ways *obl:unmarked*; honest *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the new lad | much change | you | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **charge** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the till | more | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location more=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the shelf | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **point out** | infinitive | | till | | | | politely *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/2/) - next →: [Prices and change at the till, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/)