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title: A windfall is money you did not expect, like a gift from Gran. — Pocket money and earning it with chores · tree and pragmatics
description: A windfall is money you did not expect, like a gift from Gran. Who acts: windfall, you. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 15

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A windfall is money you did not expect, like a gift from Gran.

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**Who acts:** windfall, you · **What happens:** be, not expect · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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 (windfall, you), 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:15
# text = A windfall is money you did not expect, like a gift from Gran.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	windfall	windfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a windfall | money |  |  |  | like a gift from Gran | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **expect** | past · do-support | you | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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:006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.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): no change. **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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