--- title: Pocket money, also called an allowance, is a small regular amount th… — Pocket money and earning it with chores · tree and pragmatics description: Pocket money, also called an allowance, is a small regular amount that parents give children so they can learn to handle money themselves. Who acts: Pocket money, parents. 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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 (Pocket money, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.lesson:0 # text = Pocket money, also called an allowance, is a small regular amount that parents give children so they can learn to handle money themselves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.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 Pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 allowance allowance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 15 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 iobj _ _ 18 so so SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 handle handle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Pocket money *not said here* | a allowance | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Pocket money | a small regular amount | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | present | parents | a small regular amount | children | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient that=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | can | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **handle** | to-infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | money | | | | parents *= parent* *obl:unmarked* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | 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:006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.lesson:0`. **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: [Money's history: shells, coins, paper,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/15/) - next →: [Pocket money and earning it with chores, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/)