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title: Booking early is often cheaper, because prices rise as dates get clo… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: Booking early is often cheaper, because prices rise as dates get closer; a trip at £400 in January might cost £800 in July. Who acts: Booking, prices, dates, trip. A sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 11

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Booking early is often cheaper, because prices rise as dates get closer; a trip at £400 in January might cost £800 in July.

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**Who acts:** Booking, prices, dates, trip · **What happens:** book, be, rise, get, cost

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» 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 (Booking, prices, dates, trip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:11
# text = Booking early is often cheaper, because prices rise as dates get closer; a trip at £400 in January might cost £800 in July.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Booking	book	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	nmod	_	_
19	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	obj	_	_
25	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 | **book** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Booking |  |  |  |  | cheap, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | present | prices |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | dates |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **cost** | might | a trip |  |  |  | january; july |  | 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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**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): R6-punct-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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