--- title: "Tight" is British slang for not wanting to spend money; "rip-off" m… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics description: "Tight" is British slang for not wanting to spend money; "rip-off" means something that costs far more than it is worth. Who acts: rip off, off. 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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 (rip off, off), 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:15 # text = "Tight" is British slang for not wanting to spend money; "rip-off" means something that costs far more than it is worth. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ _ 25 than than SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | British slang | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **want** | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **spend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | money | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 4 | **mean** | present | rip off | something | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 5 | **cost** | present | | more | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | | 6 | **is** | present | off | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | 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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/14/) - next →: [Prices and change at the till, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/)