haggle

Who acts: side, Mum, They · What happens: haggle, be, try, pay, get · To what, where: price, more, farmer, market, hundred roubles, last · Speech: someone speaks here

«haggle» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: haggle in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To haggle is to argue over a price, each side trying to pay less or get more.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 haggle	mark
2	haggle	haggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 argue	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 argue	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 argue	mark
5	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 price	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 price	det
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 argue	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 side	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 side	det
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 price	conj
12	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 side	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pay	mark
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 pay	advmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 get	cc
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pay	conj
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 get	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 argue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	haggle	to-infinitive					vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be speech: disagree	present			a price and each side	argue property	tree rules
3	try	gerund	each side not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	each side not said here			less property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	get	infinitive	each side not said here	more			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

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.

Example 1

The farmer and the trader haggled for an hour.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trader	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trader	det
5	trader	trader	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 farmer	conj
6	haggled	haggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 farmer	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 haggled	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 farmer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haggle	participle		the farmer and the trader not said here			hour		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

Mum always haggles at the market.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 haggles	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 haggles	advmod
3	haggles	haggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 market	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 market	det
6	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 haggles	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 haggles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haggle	present	Mum			the market		always property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

They haggled, but at last they paid three hundred roubles.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 haggled	nsubj
2	haggled	haggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 paid	cc
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 paid	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 paid	nsubj
8	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 haggled	conj
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	compound
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 roubles	nummod
11	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 paid	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 haggled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haggle	past	They						vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pay	past	they	hundred roubles		last			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Asset

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