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title: Peer pressure is feeling pushed to buy or do something because frien… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: Peer pressure is feeling pushed to buy or do something because friends do; "everyone has them" often means 3 children in a class of 30, which is 1 in 10, not everyone. Who acts: everyone, class. A sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money course of Mova's primary sch
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# Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 1

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Peer pressure is feeling pushed to buy or do something because friends do; "everyone has them" often means 3 children in a class of 30, which is 1 in 10, not everyone.

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**Who acts:** everyone, class · **What happens:** push, buy, do, have, mean, be · **To what, where:** something, friends, 3 children, 1, 10

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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 (everyone, class), 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:1
# text = Peer pressure is feeling pushed to buy or do something because friends do; "everyone has them" often means 3 children in a class of 30, which is 1 in 10, not everyone.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:aux:pass
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **push** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | everyone | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **mean** | present | everyone *not said here* | 3 children |  |  |  | in a class of 30; often *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot child=Theme in class=Attribute |
| 6 | **is a** | present | a class of 30 | 1 |  | 10 |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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