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title: Shops are clever too: sweets sit by the tills where bored children w… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: Shops are clever too: sweets sit by the tills where bored children wait, and shopping hungry makes everyone grab extra. Who acts: Shops, sweets, bored children, shopping. A sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 3

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Shops are clever too: sweets sit by the tills where bored children wait, and shopping hungry makes everyone grab extra.

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**Who acts:** Shops, sweets, bored children, shopping, everyone · **What happens:** be, sit, wait, make, grab · **To what, where:** everyone, extra

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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 (Shops, sweets, bored children, shopping), 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:3
# text = Shops are clever too: sweets sit by the tills where bored children wait, and shopping hungry makes everyone grab extra.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tills	till	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
20	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Shops |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | sweets |  |  |  |  | by the tills | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by till=Location |
| 3 | **wait** | present | bored children |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | shopping | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grab** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | extra |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=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:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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