Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 6

Knowing a few simple meals saves money and keeps you healthy; adults who cannot cook spend much more on takeaways and ready meals.

Who acts: Knowing, adults · What happens: know, save, keep, not cook, spend · To what, where: few simple meals, money, you, more, takeaways

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (Knowing, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saves	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meals	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meals	amod
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meals	amod
5	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowing	obj
6	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saves	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keeps	cc
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saves	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 keeps	obj
11	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keeps	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct
13	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spend	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cook	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cook	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 cook	advmod
17	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 adults	acl:relcl
18	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saves	parataxis
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 spend	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 takeaways	case
22	takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spend	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 meals	cc
24	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 meals	amod
25	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 takeaways	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saves	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	gerund		a few simple meals		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus
2	save	present	Knowing	money		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	keep	present	Knowing not said here	you	healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	not cook	can	adults			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	spend	infinitive	adults	more	on takeaways and ready meals goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent more=Asset on takeaway=Goal

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, 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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:6.

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.

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