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title: A PIN, or personal identification number, is a secret 4-digit code f… — A bank account and a debit card · tree and pragmatics
description: A PIN, or personal identification number, is a secret 4-digit code for a card; never write it near the card or tell anyone except a parent. Who acts: PIN. A sentence of the lesson «A bank account and a debit card» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# A bank account and a debit card, sentence 11

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A PIN, or personal identification number, is a secret 4-digit code for a card; never write it near the card or tell anyone except a parent.

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**Who acts:** PIN · **What happens:** be, not write, tell · **To what, where:** secret digit code, PIN, card, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A bank account and a debit card» 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 (PIN), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:026-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card.lesson:11
# text = A PIN, or personal identification number, is a secret 4-digit code for a card; never write it near the card or tell anyone except a parent.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 026-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card.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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PIN	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	identification	identification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
14	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	except	except	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 a** | present | a PIN or personal identification number | a secret digit code |  |  |  | for a card | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **write** | infinitive |  | PIN |  | the card |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | anyone |  |  | except a parent | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |

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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:026-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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