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title: haggle — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «haggle» in the school dictionary: To haggle is to argue over a price, each side trying to pay less or get more. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# haggle

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**Who acts:** side, Mum, They · **What happens:** haggle, be, try, pay, get · **To what, where:** price, more, farmer, market, hundred roubles, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«haggle» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [haggle in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/haggle.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To haggle is to argue over a price, each side trying to pay less or get more.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:haggle:m1:1
# text = To haggle is to argue over a price, each side trying to pay less or get more.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	haggle	haggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haggle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** *speech: disagree* | present |  |  |  | a price and each side |  | argue *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | each side *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | each side *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | infinitive | each side *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The farmer and the trader haggled for an hour.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:haggle:x1:1
# text = The farmer and the trader haggled for an hour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	haggled	haggle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haggle** | participle |  | the farmer and the trader *not said here* |  |  | hour |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mum always haggles at the market.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:haggle:x2:1
# text = Mum always haggles at the market.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	haggles	haggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haggle** | present | Mum |  |  | the market |  | always *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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They haggled, but at last they paid three hundred roubles.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:haggle:x3:1
# text = They haggled, but at last they paid three hundred roubles.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	haggled	haggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	roubles	rouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haggle** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay** | past | they | hundred roubles |  | last |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Asset |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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