--- title: A need is something you must have to live, stay healthy or stay safe… — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics description: A need is something you must have to live, stay healthy or stay safe, like food, water, a home, warm clothes and a coat in winter; a want is something nice that you could live without, like a trampoline or a new game. Who acts: need, you, want. 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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 (need, you, want), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:007-wants-and-needs.lesson:0 # text = A need is something you must have to live, stay healthy or stay safe, like food, water, a home, warm clothes and a coat in winter; a want is something nice that you could live without, like a trampoline or a new game. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 007-wants-and-needs.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 want want NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 37 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 42 without without ADP IN _ 41 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 trampoline trampoline NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 parataxis _ _ 47 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a need | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | must | you | | | | | like food and water and a home and warm clothes in winter and a coat | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | healthy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | a want | something | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **live** | could | you | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:007-wants-and-needs.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Pocket money and earning it with chores, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/15/) - next →: [Wants and needs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/)