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title: Many UK shops charge for carrier bags so people use fewer and make l… — Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout · tree and pragmatics
description: Many UK shops charge for carrier bags so people use fewer and make less plastic rubbish. Who acts: Many UK shops, people. 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 clause.
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# Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout, sentence 12

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Many UK shops charge for carrier bags so people use fewer and make less plastic rubbish.

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**Who acts:** Many UK shops, people · **What happens:** charge, use, make · **To what, where:** fewer, less plastic rubbish

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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 (Many UK shops, people), 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:12
# text = Many UK shops charge for carrier bags so people use fewer and make less plastic rubbish.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	carrier	carrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
15	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present | Many UK shops |  |  |  |  | for carrier bags | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | people | fewer |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | people *not said here* | less plastic rubbish |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rubbish=Product |

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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:12`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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