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title: A "was" price only shows a real saving if the old price was really c… — Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles · tree and pragmatics
description: A "was" price only shows a real saving if the old price was really charged for a good while. Who acts: price. A sentence of the lesson «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles, sentence 15

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A "was" price only shows a real saving if the old price was really charged for a good while.

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**Who acts:** price · **What happens:** be, show, charge · **To what, where:** price, real saving, old price

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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 (price), 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:15
# text = A "was" price only shows a real saving if the old price was really charged for a good while.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | past |  | a price |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | a price | a real saving |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent saving=Recipient |
| 3 | **charge** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the old price |  |  | while |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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): 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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