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title: With what money?» Then he added that some people think it can be don… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics
description: With what money?» Then he added that some people think it can be done with clever choices, others think it can't, and they'd see. Who acts: dad, people, others. A sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 24

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With what money?» Then he added that some people think it can be done with clever choices, others think it can't, and they'd see.

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**Who acts:** dad, people, others · **What happens:** add, think, do, see · **To what, where:** money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» 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 (dad, people, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:24
# text = With what money?» Then he added that some people think it can be done with clever choices, others think it can't, and they'd see.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.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	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	choices	choice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | dad |  |  |  | then | with what money | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | some people |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | money |  |  |  | with clever choices | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | would | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): 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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