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title: Something can be both: plain shoes are a need, while expensive brand… — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics
description: Something can be both: plain shoes are a need, while expensive branded trainers are a want. Who acts: Something, plain shoes, expensive branded trainers. A sentence of the lesson «Wants and needs» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Wants and needs, sentence 10

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Something can be both: plain shoes are a need, while expensive branded trainers are a want.

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**Who acts:** Something, plain shoes, expensive branded trainers · **What happens:** be, brand · **To what, where:** both, need, want

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wants and needs» 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 (Something, plain shoes, expensive branded trainers), 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:10
# text = Something can be both: plain shoes are a need, while expensive branded trainers are a want.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	both	both	PRON	DT	_	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	branded	brand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | can | Something | both |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | plain shoes | a need |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **brand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | expensive branded trainers | a want |  |  |  |  | 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:007-wants-and-needs.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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