--- title: Losing something has a cost; earning a replacement by chores or savi… — Comfortable families: enough, but not everything · tree and pragmatics description: Losing something has a cost; earning a replacement by chores or saving teaches you to look after things. Who acts: Losing, earning. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Losing, earning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:43 # text = Losing something has a cost; earning a replacement by chores or saving teaches you to look after things. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.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 ×1 1 Losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 earning earn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 replacement replacement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 chores chore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 14 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 2 | **have** | present | Losing | a cost | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient | | 3 | **earn** | gerund | | a replacement | | | | by chores | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent replacement=Theme | | 4 | **save** | gerund | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | earning | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | earning *not said here* | | | | after things | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:43`. **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 ×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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