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title: If Gran says "keep the change", telling her how much is left makes i… — Honesty with money: too much change and the foun… · tree and pragmatics
description: If Gran says "keep the change", telling her how much is left makes it an honest gift; being open about money stops mix-ups in families. Who acts: Gran, telling. A sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school 
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# Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 16

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If Gran says "keep the change", telling her how much is left makes it an honest gift; being open about money stops mix-ups in families.

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**Who acts:** Gran, telling · **What happens:** say, keep, tell, leave, make, be · **To what, where:** change, Gran, much, mix ups, families · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» of the religion ethics 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 (Gran, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:16
# text = If Gran says "keep the change", telling her how much is left makes it an honest gift; being open about money stops mix-ups in families.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	csubj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
27	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
29	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Gran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the change |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | Gran |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | telling | change |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about money; open *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **stop** | present |  | mix ups |  | families |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality up=Eventuality |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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