--- title: Some people buy concert tickets only to sell them on for much more;… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics description: Some people buy concert tickets only to sell them on for much more; many countries limit this, fake tickets are a real problem, and official sellers are safest. Who acts: people, many countries, fake tickets, official sellers. A sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/) / 11 # Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 11 Some people buy concert tickets only to sell them on for much more; many countries limit this, fake tickets are a real problem, and official sellers are safest. **Who acts:** people, many countries, fake tickets, official sellers · **What happens:** buy, sell on, limit, be · **To what, where:** concert tickets, tickets, this, real problem This is a sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts 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 (people, many countries, fake tickets, official sellers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:11 # text = Some people buy concert tickets only to sell them on for much more; many countries limit this, fake tickets are a real problem, and official sellers are safest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 buy buy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 tickets ticket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 for for ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 much much ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 limit limit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tickets ticket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 sellers seller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | present | some people | concert tickets | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme | | 2 | **sell on** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | tickets *= ticket* | | | | more *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **limit** | present | many countries | this | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | fake tickets | a real problem | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | official sellers | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:arts:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/10/) - next →: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/)