--- title: Needs are things we must have to live, like food, water and shelter;… — People and society — communities, work, money an… · tree and pragmatics description: Needs are things we must have to live, like food, water and shelter; wants are things that are nice to have. Who acts: Needs, we, things, wants. A sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/15/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [People and society — communities, work…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/) / 15 # People and society — communities, work, money and rules, sentence 15 Needs are things we must have to live, like food, water and shelter; wants are things that are nice to have. **Who acts:** Needs, we, things, wants · **What happens:** be, have, live · **To what, where:** things This is a sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world 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 (Needs, we, things, wants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:058-people-and-society.lesson:15 # text = Needs are things we must have to live, like food, water and shelter; wants are things that are nice to have. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 058-people-and-society.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 1 Needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 17 wants want NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Needs | things and things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | must | we | things and things *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | things and things *not said here* | | | | | like food and water and shelter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | wants | things | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | things | | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | things *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:world:058-people-and-society.lesson:15`. **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. **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: [People and society — communities, work…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/14/) - next →: [People and society — communities, work…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/)