--- title: Paying a little more for something that lasts can cost less in the e… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics description: Paying a little more for something that lasts can cost less in the end than cheap things that break. Who acts: Paying, cheap 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 claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/12/) [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/) / [Pocket money, saving and spending](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/) / 12 # Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 12 Paying a little more for something that lasts can cost less in the end than cheap things that break. **Who acts:** Paying, cheap things · **What happens:** pay, last, cost, break · **To what, where:** more, less, end 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 (Paying, cheap 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:12 # text = Paying a little more for something that lasts can cost less in the end than cheap things that break. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | gerund | | more | | | | for something | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Asset for something=Theme | | 2 | **last** | present | | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cost** | can | Paying | less | | | in the end than cheap things | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value | | 4 | **break** | present | cheap things | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:12`. **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 ×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: [Pocket money, saving and spending, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/11/) - next →: [Pocket money, saving and spending, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/)