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title: Honesty works both ways: if a stall charges £6 instead of £8, paying… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics
description: Honesty works both ways: if a stall charges £6 instead of £8, paying the right £8 gives the trader back the £2 they earned. Who acts: Honesty, stall, right, ways. A sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 16

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Honesty works both ways: if a stall charges £6 instead of £8, paying the right £8 gives the trader back the £2 they earned.

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**Who acts:** Honesty, stall, right, ways · **What happens:** work, charge, pay, give back, earn · **To what, where:** ways, trader

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» 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 (Honesty, stall, right, ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:16
# text = Honesty works both ways: if a stall charges £6 instead of £8, paying the right £8 gives the trader back the £2 they earned.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5
1	Honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
8	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound
9	charges	charge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	obj	_	_
11	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	nmod	_	_
15	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	nmod	_	_
21	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	obj	_	_
28	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **work** | present | Honesty | both ways |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **charge** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a stall |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location £=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give back** | present | the right |  | the trader |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent trader=Recipient £=Theme |
| 5 | **earn** | past | ways *= way* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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