--- title: People often say "need" when they mean "want": nobody dies without t… — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics description: People often say "need" when they mean "want": nobody dies without the new FIFA, and calling it a want helps you decide calmly instead of in a panic. Who acts: People, nobody, want, you. 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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 (People, nobody, want, you), 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:2 # text = People often say "need" when they mean "want": nobody dies without the new FIFA, and calling it a want helps you decide calmly instead of in a panic. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 want want NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 nsubj _ _ 15 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 without without ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 FIFA FIFA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 want want NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 instead instead ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 panic panic NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | People | want | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Topic | | 3 | **die** | present | nobody | | | | | without the new FIFA | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **call** | gerund | | want | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **help** | present | a want | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **decide** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | a panic | | calmly, instead *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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, 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: [Wants and needs, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/0/) - next →: [Wants and needs, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/)