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title: Some "deals" are not deals at all: cereal at £2.40 a box costs £4.80… — Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles · tree and pragmatics
description: Some "deals" are not deals at all: cereal at £2.40 a box costs £4.80 for two, so a "2 for £5" sign makes you pay 20p more, and shops count on people not checking. Who acts: deals, cereal, 2 sign, you. A sentence of the lesson «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles» of the money course of Mo
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# Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles, sentence 2

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Some "deals" are not deals at all: cereal at £2.40 a box costs £4.80 for two, so a "2 for £5" sign makes you pay 20p more, and shops count on people not checking.

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**Who acts:** deals, cereal, 2 sign, you, shops, people · **What happens:** not be, cost, make, pay, count, not check · **To what, where:** deals, all, more

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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 (deals, cereal, 2 sign, you), 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:2
# text = Some "deals" are not deals at all: cereal at £2.40 a box costs £4.80 for two, so a "2 for £5" sign makes you pay 20p more, and shops count on people not checking.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	nmod	_	_
14	2.40	2.40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	13	nummod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obj	_	_
19	4.80	4.80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	18	nummod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nummod
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	nmod	_	_
29	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
31	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
35	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | some deals | deals |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cost** | present | cereal |  |  |  |  | for two | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 3 | **make** | present | a 2 sign |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | infinitive | you | more |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset |
| 5 | **count** | present | shops |  |  |  |  | on people | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on people=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **check** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:012-offers-3-for-2-buy-one-get-one-free-bundles.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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