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title: Jack spends his whole £10 on the fidget toy everyone has, and two da… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack spends his whole £10 on the fidget toy everyone has, and two days later nobody cares about fidget toys any more: that is £5 for each day of fun, and a short craze like that is called a fad. Who acts: Jack, everyone, nobody, that. A sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» o
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# Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 0

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Jack spends his whole £10 on the fidget toy everyone has, and two days later nobody cares about fidget toys any more: that is £5 for each day of fun, and a short craze like that is called a fad.

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**Who acts:** Jack, everyone, nobody, that · **What happens:** spend, have, care, be, call · **To what, where:** fidget toy, £ 5, short craze · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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 (Jack, everyone, nobody, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:0
# text = Jack spends his whole £10 on the fidget toy everyone has, and two days later nobody cares about fidget toys any more: that is £5 for each day of fun, and a short craze like that is called a fad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fidget	fidget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	fidget	fidget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	29	compound	_	_
29	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	parataxis	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	craze	craze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nmod	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fad	fad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **spend** | present | Jack |  |  |  |  | on the fidget toy *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent £=Asset on toy=Goal |
| 2 | **have** | present | everyone | the fidget toy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient |
| 3 | **care** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | about fidget toys; late *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about toy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | £ 5 |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | a short craze like that |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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**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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:0`.

**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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