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title: Giving does not have to be big or even money: 30 kids bringing £1 ea… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving does not have to be big or even money: 30 kids bringing £1 each make £30, a whole school can make hundreds, and an afternoon helping at a food bank is a gift of time. Who acts: Giving, 30 kids, whole school, afternoon helping. A sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» o
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# Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, sentence 3

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Giving does not have to be big or even money: 30 kids bringing £1 each make £30, a whole school can make hundreds, and an afternoon helping at a food bank is a gift of time.

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**Who acts:** Giving, 30 kids, whole school, afternoon helping · **What happens:** give, not have, be, bring, make · **To what, where:** hundreds, gift

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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 (Giving, 30 kids, whole school, afternoon helping), 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:3
# text = Giving does not have to be big or even money: 30 kids bringing £1 each make £30, a whole school can make hundreds, and an afternoon helping at a food bank is a gift of time.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
12	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	obj	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obj	_	_
20	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
27	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det
31	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	helping	helping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | Giving |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Giving *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | 30 kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | 30 kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Product |
| 6 | **make** | can | a whole school | hundreds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hundred=Product |
| 7 | **is a** | present | afternoon helping | a gift |  |  | time |  | 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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**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:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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