--- title: A trade-off is giving up one thing to pay for another, like skipping… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics description: A trade-off is giving up one thing to pay for another, like skipping a £15 takeaway for 2 weeks to save £30 for a school trip. Who acts: trade off. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trade off), 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:13 # text = A trade-off is giving up one thing to pay for another, like skipping a £15 takeaway for 2 weeks to save £30 for a school trip. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 like like SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 skipping skip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 £ £ SYM $ _ 20 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 20 takeaway takeaway NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 26 £ £ SYM $ _ 25 obj _ _ 27 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | present · progressive | a trade off | one thing | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Source | | 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | a trade off *not said here* | one thing *not said here* | | | | for another | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for another=Theme | | 3 | **skip** | gerund | a trade off *not said here* | a £ takeaway | | | week | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent takeaway=Agent | | 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | a trade off *not said here* | | | | | for a school trip | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent £=Theme for trip=Source | 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. **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:13`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/12/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/)