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title: Things bought only to fit in often bring little joy. — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: Things bought only to fit in often bring little joy. Who acts: Things. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 10

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Things bought only to fit in often bring little joy.

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**Who acts:** Things · **What happens:** buy, fit in, bring · **To what, where:** Things, little joy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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 (Things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:10
# text = Things bought only to fit in often bring little joy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.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 ×1
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | participle |  | Things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fit in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | Things | little joy |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent joy=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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**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:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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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