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title: Mystery bags make buying exciting, but you pay for the surprise and… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: Mystery bags make buying exciting, but you pay for the surprise and often get things you do not want. Who acts: Mystery bags, you. 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 8

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Mystery bags make buying exciting, but you pay for the surprise and often get things you do not want.

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**Who acts:** Mystery bags, you · **What happens:** make, buy, pay, get, not want · **To what, where:** things

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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 (Mystery bags, you), 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:8
# text = Mystery bags make buying exciting, but you pay for the surprise and often get things you do not want.
# 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 ×1
1	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	obj	_	_
5	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | present | Mystery bags |  |  |  |  | exciting *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for the surprise | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for surprise=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | present | you *not said here* | things |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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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**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 ×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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