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title: Wanting things is normal and fine; the skill is deciding what comes… — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics
description: Wanting things is normal and fine; the skill is deciding what comes first. Who acts: Wanting, skill. 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 clause.
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# Wants and needs, sentence 12

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Wanting things is normal and fine; the skill is deciding what comes first.

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**Who acts:** Wanting, skill · **What happens:** want, be, decide, come · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wanting, skill), 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:12
# text = Wanting things is normal and fine; the skill is deciding what comes first.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Wanting |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Wanting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **decide** | present · progressive | the skill |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:12`.

**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 ×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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