--- title: Cheap things that break quickly can cost more in the end than someth… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics description: Cheap things that break quickly can cost more in the end than something that lasts. Who acts: Cheap things. A sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/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/) / [Coins, pocket money, saving, spending…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/) / 13 # Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 13 Cheap things that break quickly can cost more in the end than something that lasts. **Who acts:** Cheap things · **What happens:** break, cost, last · **To what, where:** more, end This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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 (Cheap things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:13 # text = Cheap things that break quickly can cost more in the end than something that lasts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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): no change 1 Cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | Cheap things | | | | | quickly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **cost** | can | Cheap things | more | | | in the end than something | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | | 3 | **last** | present | | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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): no change. **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: [Coins, pocket money, saving, spending…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/11/) - next →: [Coins, pocket money, saving, spending…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/)