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title: Queues get longer when fewer tills are open, because each till serve… — Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout · tree and pragmatics
description: Queues get longer when fewer tills are open, because each till serves one person at a time. Who acts: Queues, fewer tills, till. A sentence of the lesson «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout, sentence 10

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Queues get longer when fewer tills are open, because each till serves one person at a time.

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**Who acts:** Queues, fewer tills, till · **What happens:** get, be, serve · **To what, where:** one person

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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 (Queues, fewer tills, till), 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:10
# text = Queues get longer when fewer tills are open, because each till serves one person at a time.
# 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): no change
1	Queues	queue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
5	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	tills	till	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Queues |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | fewer tills |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | present | each till | one person |  |  | time |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Attribute |

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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:014-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout.lesson:10`.

**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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