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title: Bigger packs are often cheaper per unit, but not always. — Unit prices and sales that are not really sales · tree and pragmatics
description: Bigger packs are often cheaper per unit, but not always. Who acts: Bigger packs. A sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 5

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Bigger packs are often cheaper per unit, but not always.

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**Who acts:** Bigger packs · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» 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 (Bigger packs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:5
# text = Bigger packs are often cheaper per unit, but not always.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.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
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	per	per	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Bigger packs |  |  |  |  | per unit; cheap, often *property* | tree rules |

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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:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:5`.

**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. **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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