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title: A market stall in Cape Town said «BUY 2, GET 1 FREE!» Zara's gran di… — «Only one left!»: shops and adverts · tree and pragmatics
description: A market stall in Cape Town said «BUY 2, GET 1 FREE!» Zara's gran did the sums: one cost R20 (twenty rand, South African money) last week, and three now cost R60 — the same as before. Who acts: market stall, «, gran, three. A sentence of the lesson ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» of the everyd
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# «Only one left!»: shops and adverts, sentence 14

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A market stall in Cape Town said «BUY 2, GET 1 FREE!» Zara's gran did the sums: one cost R20 (twenty rand, South African money) last week, and three now cost R60 — the same as before.

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**Who acts:** market stall, «, gran, three · **What happens:** say, buy, get, do, cost · **To what, where:** 2, sums, R60 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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 (market stall, «, gran, three), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:14
# text = A market stall in Cape Town said «BUY 2, GET 1 FREE!» Zara's gran did the sums: one cost R20 (twenty rand, South African money) last week, and three now cost R60 — the same as before.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	BUY	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	GET	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
13	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	FREE	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
17	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
26	R20	R20	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	rand	rand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nsubj	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
42	R60	R60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
43	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	before	before	ADV	RB	_	45	obl	_	_
48	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: express* | past | a market stall in Cape Town |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive | « | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **do** | past | Zara's gran | the sums and cost last week |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cost** | present | three | R60 |  |  | now |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme r60=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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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