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title: Some offers cost more than buying the items normally, so always do t… — Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles · tree and pragmatics
description: Some offers cost more than buying the items normally, so always do the sum. Who acts: offers. 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 8

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Some offers cost more than buying the items normally, so always do the sum.

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**Who acts:** offers · **What happens:** cost, buy, do · **To what, where:** more, items, sum

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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 (offers), 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:8
# text = Some offers cost more than buying the items normally, so always do the sum.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	offers	offer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	normally	normally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **cost** | present | some offers | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund |  | the items |  |  |  | normally *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive |  | the sum |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |

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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): 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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