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title: A running total means adding up the prices as you go; at £43 of a £5… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: A running total means adding up the prices as you go; at £43 of a £50 budget, £7 is left, so an £8 cake does not fit. Who acts: running total, you, £ cake. A sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 13

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A running total means adding up the prices as you go; at £43 of a £50 budget, £7 is left, so an £8 cake does not fit.

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**Who acts:** running total, you, £ cake · **What happens:** mean, add up, go, leave, not fit · **To what, where:** prices

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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 (running total, you, £ cake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:13
# text = A running total means adding up the prices as you go; at £43 of a £50 budget, £7 is left, so an £8 cake does not fit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.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	running	running	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	nmod	_	_
5	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	obl	_	_
15	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	compound	_	_
19	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	compound	_	_
30	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
31	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | a running total |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | a running total *not said here* | the prices |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at £=Location |
| 5 | **not** **fit** | present · do-support | a £ cake |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: 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:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.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): 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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