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title: Depreciation is when something loses value over time; a £20,000 new… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: Depreciation is when something loses value over time; a £20,000 new car may be worth £16,000 after one year, losing £4,000. Who acts: Depreciation, something, £ new car. A sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 12

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Depreciation is when something loses value over time; a £20,000 new car may be worth £16,000 after one year, losing £4,000.

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**Who acts:** Depreciation, something, £ new car · **What happens:** be, lose · **To what, where:** value

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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 (Depreciation, something, £ new car), 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:12
# text = Depreciation is when something loses value over time; a £20,000 new car may be worth £16,000 after one year, losing £4,000.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Depreciation	depreciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
5	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	compound	_	_
12	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
19	16,000	16,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis
25	£	£	SYM	$	_	24	obj	_	_
26	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **be** | present | Depreciation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | present | something | value |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | may | a £ new car |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | gerund | a £ new car *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

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