--- title: A trade-off is giving up one thing to get another. — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics description: A trade-off is giving up one thing to get another. Who acts: trade off. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Wants and needs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/) / 13 # Wants and needs, sentence 13 A trade-off is giving up one thing to get another. **Who acts:** trade off · **What happens:** give up, get · **To what, where:** one thing, another 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 (trade off), 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:13 # text = A trade-off is giving up one thing to get another. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | present · progressive | a trade off | one thing | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Source | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | a trade off *not said here* | another | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus | 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:13`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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: [Wants and needs, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/12/) - next →: [Wants and needs, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/)