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title: Free fun like the park, the library and a picnic costs £0, while the… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics
description: Free fun like the park, the library and a picnic costs £0, while the cinema for 4 at £8 each costs £32. Who acts: picnic, cinema. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 12

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Free fun like the park, the library and a picnic costs £0, while the cinema for 4 at £8 each costs £32.

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**Who acts:** picnic, cinema · **What happens:** cost

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» 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 (picnic, cinema), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:12
# text = Free fun like the park, the library and a picnic costs £0, while the cinema for 4 at £8 each costs £32.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 023-when-money-is-tight.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
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	picnic	picnic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	obj	_	_
14	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	nmod	_	_
23	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	each	each	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
25	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	obj	_	_
27	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **cost** | present | a picnic |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 2 | **cost** | present | the cinema for 4 |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |

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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:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:12`.

**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. **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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