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title: Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics
description: Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices, so honest customers pay too. Who acts: Shops, ban, honest customers. 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 pragmatics of ev
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# Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 9

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Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices, so honest customers pay too.

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**Who acts:** Shops, ban, honest customers · **What happens:** cover, lose, steal, raise, pay · **To what, where:** money, prices

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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 (Shops, ban, honest customers), 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:9
# text = Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices, so honest customers pay too.
# 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 ×3
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
9	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	customers	customer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cover** | present | Shops | the money |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Destination |
| 2 | **lose** | present | ban | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
| 3 | **steal** | gerund | ban *not said here* |  |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **raise** | gerund | ban *not said here* | prices |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme |
| 5 | **pay** | present | honest customers |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:9`.

**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 ×3. **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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