--- title: Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A receipt is the paper or email that proves what you bought, when and for how much; Mum kept the receipt for Kian's £30 shoes, s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/) [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/) / Receipts, refunds, queues and self-che… # Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout Lesson 14 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/0/) — A receipt is the paper or email that proves what you bought, when and for how much; Mum kept the receipt for Kian's £30 shoes, so when the sole came off a week later the shop gave her the £30 back. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/1/) — If something is faulty, meaning broken when it should not be, the law usually gives you a refund, a repair or a replacement; if you just change your mind, the shop does not have to take it back, though many do for unused things. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/3/) — At a self-checkout you scan your own shopping, and it is easy to miss something by accident; if you spot it, scan it, because an unpaid loaf of bread is a loss to the shop. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/4/) — A receipt is proof of what you bought, when and for how much. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/6/) — Faulty means broken or not working when it should; shops must usually give a refund, repair or replacement for faulty goods. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/7/) — Shops do not have to refund you just because you changed your mind, though many will for unused things within a few weeks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/8/) — A gift receipt lets someone swap a present without seeing its price. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/9/) — An itemised receipt lists each thing you bought, so you can spot mistakes. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/10/) — Queues get longer when fewer tills are open, because each till serves one person at a time. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/11/) — At a self-checkout you scan each item's barcode yourself; shops check with cameras and staff. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/12/) — Many UK shops charge for carrier bags so people use fewer and make less plastic rubbish. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/13/) — Some places take only cash, so owing a friend is fine if you pay back quickly as promised. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/15/) — Photos are good proof when something arrives broken from an online shop. - ← previous: [Unit prices and sales that are not really sales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales/) - next →: [Taking without paying: the consequences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)