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title: Laughing at someone for having less money is unkind; trainers at £20… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughing at someone for having less money is unkind; trainers at £20 keep feet dry just like trainers at £80. Who acts: Laughing. 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 8

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Laughing at someone for having less money is unkind; trainers at £20 keep feet dry just like trainers at £80.

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**Who acts:** Laughing · **What happens:** laugh, have, be · **To what, where:** someone, less money

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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 (Laughing), 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:8
# text = Laughing at someone for having less money is unkind; trainers at £20 keep feet dry just like trainers at £80.
# 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 ×2
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	amod	_	_
14	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	keep	keep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	obl	_	_
23	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  | someone |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | less money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | Laughing |  |  |  |  | trainers  £ keep feet *obl*; unkind *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:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:8`.

**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. **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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