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title: Prices often drop when a newer version comes out, so waiting can sav… — Saving up for a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Prices often drop when a newer version comes out, so waiting can save money. Who acts: Prices, newer version. A sentence of the lesson «Saving up for a game» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saving up for a game, sentence 11

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Prices often drop when a newer version comes out, so waiting can save money.

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**Who acts:** Prices, newer version · **What happens:** drop, come out, wait, save · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving up for a game» 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 (Prices, newer version), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:008-saving-up-for-a-game.lesson:11
# text = Prices often drop when a newer version comes out, so waiting can save money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 008-saving-up-for-a-game.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	Prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **drop** | present | Prices |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | present | a newer version |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | can |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:008-saving-up-for-a-game.lesson:11`.

**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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