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title: Greed for more and more things hides what you already have. — When you want what others have · tree and pragmatics
description: Greed for more and more things hides what you already have. Who acts: Greed, you. A sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When you want what others have, sentence 13

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Greed for more and more things hides what you already have.

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**Who acts:** Greed, you · **What happens:** hide, have

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» 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 (Greed, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:13
# text = Greed for more and more things hides what you already have.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **hide** | present | Greed for more things |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.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): 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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