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title: Saying no to spending is okay; good friends do not make you feel bad… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying no to spending is okay; good friends do not make you feel bad about money. Who acts: Saying, good friends, 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 9

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Saying no to spending is okay; good friends do not make you feel bad about money.

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**Who acts:** Saying, good friends, you · **What happens:** say, be, not make, not feel · **To what, where:** no, spending, you · **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 (Saying, good friends, 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:9
# text = Saying no to spending is okay; good friends do not make you feel bad about money.
# 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	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	no	no	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	spending	spending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | no | spending |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to spending=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Saying |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | good friends | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:9`.

**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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