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title: Even small things count, including eating food in a shop before payi… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics
description: Even small things count, including eating food in a shop before paying for it, unless it is a free sample you are offered. Who acts: small things, food. A sentence of the lesson «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 5

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Even small things count, including eating food in a shop before paying for it, unless it is a free sample you are offered.

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**Who acts:** small things, food · **What happens:** count, eat, pay, be, offer · **To what, where:** food, shop, free sample, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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 (small things, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:5
# text = Even small things count, including eating food in a shop before paying for it, unless it is a free sample you are offered.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.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 ×2
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	including	include	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **count** | present | small things |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | small things *not said here* | food |  | a shop |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | gerund | small things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for food | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | food | a free sample |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **offer** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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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:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:5`.

**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 ×2. **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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