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title: A «buy one get one free» offer is only a bargain if you would use bo… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: A «buy one get one free» offer is only a bargain if you would use both. Who acts: buy offer, you. 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 11

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A «buy one get one free» offer is only a bargain if you would use both.

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**Who acts:** buy offer, you · **What happens:** get, be, use · **To what, where:** one, bargain, both · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (buy offer, you), 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:11
# text = A «buy one get one free» offer is only a bargain if you would use both.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	buy	buy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a buy offer | a bargain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | both |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient |

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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: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 ×1, 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/).

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