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description: 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. Who acts: something, law, you, shop. A sentence of the lesson «Receipts
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# Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** something, law, you, shop, many, your · **What happens:** be, mean, break, give, change, not have · **To what, where:** refund, you, mind, shop

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» 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 (something, law, you, shop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:014-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 014-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	faulty	faulty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
6	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	refund	refund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	replacement	replacement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	nsubj	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	unused	unused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something |  |  |  |  | faulty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **break** *not said to happen* | participle | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | present | the law | a refund and a repair or a replacement | you |  |  | usually *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient refund=Theme |
| 5 | **change** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | you | your mind |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | the shop |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take back** | to-infinitive | the shop *not said here* | shop |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **do** | present | many |  |  |  |  | for unused things | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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/).

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