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title: Shops put up offers to make you buy more: "3 for 2" means you take 3… — Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles · tree and pragmatics
description: Shops put up offers to make you buy more: "3 for 2" means you take 3 and pay for 2, and "buy one get one free" (BOGOF) means two for the price of one. Who acts: Shops, you, 3, BOGOF. A sentence of the lesson «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles» of the money course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles, sentence 0

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Shops put up offers to make you buy more: "3 for 2" means you take 3 and pay for 2, and "buy one get one free" (BOGOF) means two for the price of one.

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**Who acts:** Shops, you, 3, BOGOF · **What happens:** put up, make, buy, mean, take, pay · **To what, where:** offers, you, more, 3, one, two · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles» 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 (Shops, you, 3, BOGOF), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:012-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles.lesson:0
# text = Shops put up offers to make you buy more: "3 for 2" means you take 3 and pay for 2, and "buy one get one free" (BOGOF) means two for the price of one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 012-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	offers	offer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
12	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
31	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
34	BOGOF	BOGOF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
36	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **put up** | past | Shops | offers |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent offer=Goal |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Shops *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | 3 for 2 |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | present | you | 3 |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3=Theme |
| 6 | **pay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for 2 | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for 2=Theme |
| 7 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  | free *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 9 | **mean** | present | BOGOF | two |  |  |  | for the price of one | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot two=Theme for price=Attribute |

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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, 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.

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