Money, work and the big choices, sentence 1
None of them is made in one day; people save bit by bit, start with small jobs, revise for weeks and change their minds as they learn what they like.
Who acts: people, courses · What happens: make, save, start, revise, change, learn · To what, where: None, bit, minds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» 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 (people, courses), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 None | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 save | punct |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 save | nsubj |
| 11 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 save | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 bit | case |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 save | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 start | punct |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 save | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 jobs | case |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 jobs | amod |
| 19 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 start | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 revise | punct |
| 21 | revise | revise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 save | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 weeks | case |
| 23 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 revise | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 revise | cc |
| 25 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 start | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 minds | nmod:poss |
| 27 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 change | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 learn | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 learn | nsubj |
| 30 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 change | advcl |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 like | obj |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 like | nsubj |
| 33 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 learn | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | None | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | save | present | people | bit | by bit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | |||
| 3 | start | present | people not said here | with small jobs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with job=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | revise | present | people not said here | week | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | change | present | people not said here | courses's minds | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 6 | learn | present | people | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | like | present | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 8 | mind | courses = course | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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, 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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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