--- title: A want is something you would like but can live without. — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics description: A want is something you would like but can live without. Who acts: want, you. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Wants and needs, sentence 5 A want is something you would like but can live without. **Who acts:** want, you · **What happens:** be, like, live · **To what, where:** something 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 (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:5 # text = A want is something you would like but can live without. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 want want 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 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 without without ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a want | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **like** | would | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **live** | can | you *not said here* | | | | | without *property* | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/4/) - next →: [Wants and needs, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/)