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title: Tipping is extra money to thank someone for good service; how much d… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics
description: Tipping is extra money to thank someone for good service; how much depends on the country, and it is wise to check a charity is real before you give. Who acts: Tipping, much, charity, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» of the money course of Mova's primary school w
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# Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, sentence 4

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Tipping is extra money to thank someone for good service; how much depends on the country, and it is wise to check a charity is real before you give.

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**Who acts:** Tipping, much, charity, you · **What happens:** be, thank, depend, check, give · **To what, where:** extra money, someone

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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 (Tipping, much, charity, 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:4
# text = Tipping is extra money to thank someone for good service; how much depends on the country, and it is wise to check a charity is real before you give.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Tipping	tipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
14	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	expl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Tipping | extra money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  | for good service | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme for service=Attribute |
| 3 | **depend** | present | much |  |  |  |  | on the country | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on country=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | much *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | a charity |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **give** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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): 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.

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