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title: Boundaries are limits you set for yourself; after lending £2, £3, £1… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics
description: Boundaries are limits you set for yourself; after lending £2, £3, £1 and £4, which is £10, and getting £0 back, it is okay to say no and still be friends. Who acts: Boundaries, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, sentence 15

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Boundaries are limits you set for yourself; after lending £2, £3, £1 and £4, which is £10, and getting £0 back, it is okay to say no and still be friends.

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**Who acts:** Boundaries, you · **What happens:** be, set, lend, get back, say · **To what, where:** limits, £ 10, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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 (Boundaries, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.lesson:15
# text = Boundaries are limits you set for yourself; after lending £2, £3, £1 and £4, which is £10, and getting £0 back, it is okay to say no and still be friends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	compound	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	obj	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	compound	_	_
18	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	conj	_	_
21	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	compound	_	_
26	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	29	obj	_	_
31	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	csubj	_	_
39	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	38	discourse	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | Boundaries | limits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present | you | limits *not said here* |  |  |  | for yourself | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent limit=Patient for yourself=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **lend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | £ 10 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | infinitive |  | friends |  |  | still |  | tree rules |

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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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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