--- title: Buying things on impulse often means having no money for the things… — Spoiling and losing things · tree and pragmatics description: Buying things on impulse often means having no money for the things you really want. Who acts: Buying, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/14/) [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/) / [Spoiling and losing things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/) / 14 # Spoiling and losing things, sentence 14 Buying things on impulse often means having no money for the things you really want. **Who acts:** Buying, you · **What happens:** buy, mean, have, want · **To what, where:** things, impulse, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» 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 (Buying, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:14 # text = Buying things on impulse often means having no money for the things you really want. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 impulse impulse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 ccomp _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 really really ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **buy** | gerund | | things | | impulse | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Buying | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | gerund | | no money | | | | for the things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 4 | **want** | present | you | the things *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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