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title: Making something yourself can be cheaper and more special than buyin… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: Making something yourself can be cheaper and more special than buying it. Who acts: Making. A sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 14

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Making something yourself can be cheaper and more special than buying it.

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**Who acts:** Making · **What happens:** make, be, buy · **To what, where:** something, maker

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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 (Making), 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:14
# text = Making something yourself can be cheaper and more special than buying it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product |
| 2 | **is** | can | Making |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Making *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** | gerund | Making *not said here* | maker |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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