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title: Games often go on sale for much less than their first price, so wait… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics
description: Games often go on sale for much less than their first price, so waiting can save money. Who acts: Games. A sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 23

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Games often go on sale for much less than their first price, so waiting can save money.

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**Who acts:** Games · **What happens:** go, wait, save · **To what, where:** less, sale, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 (Games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:23
# text = Games often go on sale for much less than their first price, so waiting can save money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go** | present | Games | less |  | sale |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sale=Location |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | can |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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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**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 ×2, 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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