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title: A famous story says young Abraham Lincoln walked miles to return a f… — Honesty with money: too much change and the foun… · tree and pragmatics
description: A famous story says young Abraham Lincoln walked miles to return a few cents to a customer, which helped earn him the name "Honest Abe". Who acts: famous story, young Abraham Lincoln, customer. A sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» of the religion ethics
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# Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 5

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A famous story says young Abraham Lincoln walked miles to return a few cents to a customer, which helped earn him the name "Honest Abe".

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**Who acts:** famous story, young Abraham Lincoln, customer · **What happens:** say, walk, return, help, earn · **To what, where:** miles, few cents, customer, name, Lincoln · **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 (famous story, young Abraham Lincoln, customer), 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:5
# text = A famous story says young Abraham Lincoln walked miles to return a few cents to a customer, which helped earn him the name "Honest Abe".
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Honest	Honest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Abe	Abe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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* | present | a famous story |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | past | young Abraham Lincoln | miles |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive | young Abraham Lincoln *not said here* | a few cents |  | a customer |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cent=Theme to customer=Destination |
| 4 | **help** | past | a customer |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **earn** | infinitive | a customer *not said here* | the name | Lincoln |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary name=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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**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/).

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