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title: A gift receipt lets someone swap a present without seeing its price. — Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout · tree and pragmatics
description: A gift receipt lets someone swap a present without seeing its price. Who acts: gift receipt, someone, present. 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 8

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A gift receipt lets someone swap a present without seeing its price.

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**Who acts:** gift receipt, someone, present · **What happens:** let, swap, see · **To what, where:** present, price

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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 (gift receipt, someone, present), 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:8
# text = A gift receipt lets someone swap a present without seeing its price.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swap	swap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **let** | present | a gift receipt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swap** | infinitive | someone | a present |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | a present *not said here* | receipt's price |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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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