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title: But food, water, paper and electricity cost money and someone's work… — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics
description: But food, water, paper and electricity cost money and someone's work, and some of them, like water, are scarce in many places. Who acts: food, some, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Wasting food and water, sentence 10

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But food, water, paper and electricity cost money and someone's work, and some of them, like water, are scarce in many places.

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**Who acts:** food, some, someone · **What happens:** cost, be, work · **To what, where:** money, many places

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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 (food, some, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:10
# text = But food, water, paper and electricity cost money and someone's work, and some of them, like water, are scarce in many places.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **cost** | present | food and water and paper and electricity | money and someone's work |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value |
| 2 | **is** | present | some |  |  | many places |  | scarce *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:10`.

**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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