--- title: You never compare the prices of presents, and a small or homemade pr… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics description: You never compare the prices of presents, and a small or homemade present is fine. Who acts: You, small present. A sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/13/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Phones, visiting friends, presents and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/) / 13 # Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 13 You never compare the prices of presents, and a small or homemade present is fine. **Who acts:** You, small present · **What happens:** not compare, be · **To what, where:** prices This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» of the everyday 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 (You, small present), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:13 # text = You never compare the prices of presents, and a small or homemade present is fine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 compare compare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 homemade homemade ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 17 . . 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 | **not** **compare** | present | You | the prices of presents | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | a small present | | | | | fine *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:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:13`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Phones, visiting friends, presents and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/12/) - next →: [Phones, visiting friends, presents and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/)