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title: If you get too much change, the honest thing is to say so; the worke… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: If you get too much change, the honest thing is to say so; the worker may have to make up the missing money. Who acts: you, honest thing, worker. 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
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# Prices and change at the till, sentence 7

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If you get too much change, the honest thing is to say so; the worker may have to make up the missing money.

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**Who acts:** you, honest thing, worker · **What happens:** get, be, have, make up · **To what, where:** much change, missing money

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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 (you, honest thing, worker), 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:7
# text = If you get too much change, the honest thing is to say so; the worker may have to make up the missing money.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | much change |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | the honest thing |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | may | the worker |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make up** | to-infinitive | the worker *not said here* | the missing money |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Pivot |

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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:money:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:7`.

**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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