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title: Some places take only cash, so owing a friend is fine if you pay bac… — Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout · tree and pragmatics
description: Some places take only cash, so owing a friend is fine if you pay back quickly as promised. Who acts: places, owing, you. 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 13

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Some places take only cash, so owing a friend is fine if you pay back quickly as promised.

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**Who acts:** places, owing, you · **What happens:** take, owe, be, pay back, promise · **To what, where:** cash, friend

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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 (places, owing, you), 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:13
# text = Some places take only cash, so owing a friend is fine if you pay back quickly as promised.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **take** | present | some places | cash |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=Theme |
| 2 | **owe** | gerund |  | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | owing |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay back** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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**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:13`.

**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): 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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