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title: Cheap things that break often can cost more over time than one good… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheap things that break often can cost more over time than one good thing. 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 clause.
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# Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 24

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Cheap things that break often can cost more over time than one good thing.

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**Who acts:** Cheap things · **What happens:** break, cost · **To what, where:** more

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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:24
# text = Cheap things that break often can cost more over time than one good thing.
# 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|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	often	often	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	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | Cheap things |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cost** | can | Cheap things | more |  |  | time | than one good thing | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |

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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:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:24`.

**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/).

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