--- title: If you get too much change, the honest thing is to hand it back; if… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: If you get too much change, the honest thing is to hand it back; if you get too little, say so politely. Who acts: you, honest thing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, honest thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:15 # text = If you get too much change, the honest thing is to hand it back; if you get too little, say so politely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 22 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 23 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 23 obj _ _ 25 politely politely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | much change | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | the honest thing | | | | | hand *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | little | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | politely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent so=Topic | 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. **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:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: best buys and change at the…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/14/) - next →: [Olympiad: best buys and change at the…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/)