--- title: To see how much a box saves, find what a dozen loose things cost, th… — Best buys and offers · tree and pragmatics description: To see how much a box saves, find what a dozen loose things cost, then take away the box price, both in cents. Who acts: you, box, dozen loose things. 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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 (you, box, dozen loose things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:246-best-buys-and-offers.lesson:1 # text = To see how much a box saves, find what a dozen loose things cost, then take away the box price, both in cents. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 246-best-buys-and-offers.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 19 away away ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 both both ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 cents cent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | cents | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **save** | present | a box | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **cost** | present | dozen loose things | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | | 5 | **take away** | infinitive | | the box price | | | then | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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:lessons:246-best-buys-and-offers.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Best buys and offers, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/246-best-buys-and-offers/0/) - next →: [Best buys and offers, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/246-best-buys-and-offers/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/246-best-buys-and-offers/)