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title: Hot water costs energy to heat, so long showers cost money and leave… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: Hot water costs energy to heat, so long showers cost money and leave less for the next person. Who acts: Hot water, long showers. A sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 20

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Hot water costs energy to heat, so long showers cost money and leave less for the next person.

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**Who acts:** Hot water, long showers · **What happens:** cost, heat, leave · **To what, where:** energy, money, less

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life 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 (Hot water, long showers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:20
# text = Hot water costs energy to heat, so long showers cost money and leave less for the next person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **cost** | present | Hot water | energy |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme energy=Value |
| 2 | **heat** | to-infinitive | Hot water *not said here* | energy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cost** | present | long showers | money |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value |
| 4 | **leave** | present | long showers *not said here* | less |  |  |  | for the next person | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent less=Theme for person=Recipient |

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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:adult-life:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:20`.

**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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