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title: A debit card spends money straight from your account, so it can only… — A bank account and a debit card · tree and pragmatics
description: A debit card spends money straight from your account, so it can only spend what is there: with £3 in the account, a £4.50 snack is declined at the till. Who acts: debit card, money, your. A sentence of the lesson «A bank account and a debit card» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its
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# A bank account and a debit card, sentence 2

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A debit card spends money straight from your account, so it can only spend what is there: with £3 in the account, a £4.50 snack is declined at the till.

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**Who acts:** debit card, money, your · **What happens:** spend, decline, account · **To what, where:** money, account, £ 4.50 snack, till

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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 (debit card, money, your), 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:2
# text = A debit card spends money straight from your account, so it can only spend what is there: with £3 in the account, a £4.50 snack is declined at the till.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	debit	debit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	15	obl	_	_
22	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	30	compound	_	_
29	4.50	4.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	30	nummod	_	_
30	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	declined	decline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **spend** | present | a debit card | money |  | your account |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 2 | **spend** | can | money |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
| 3 | **decline** | present · passive |  | a £ 4.50 snack |  | the till |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **account** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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