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title: Charities often prefer money to tins and clothes, because they can b… — Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps… · tree and pragmatics
description: Charities often prefer money to tins and clothes, because they can buy what is needed near the crisis faster and more cheaply. Who acts: Charities, sanctions. A sentence of the lesson «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes, sentence 19

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Charities often prefer money to tins and clothes, because they can buy what is needed near the crisis faster and more cheaply.

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**Who acts:** Charities, sanctions · **What happens:** prefer, buy, need · **To what, where:** money, crisis

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» of the politics 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 (Charities, sanctions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.lesson:19
# text = Charities often prefer money to tins and clothes, because they can buy what is needed near the crisis faster and more cheaply.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.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
1	Charities	charity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tins	tin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
24	.	.	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 | **prefer** | present | Charities | money |  |  |  | to tins and clothes; often *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 2 | **buy** | can | sanctions *= sanction* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present · passive |  |  |  | the crisis |  | fast *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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**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. **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.

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