Where money comes from, sentence 8
Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise choosing, saving and making mistakes with money.
Who acts: Pocket money · What happens: be, give, practise, choose, save, make · To what, where: small regular amount, children, mistakes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» 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 (Pocket money), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 money | compound | ||
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amount | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 amount | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 amount | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 amount | amod |
| 6 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 amount | amod |
| 7 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 amount | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 practise | mark |
| 12 | practise | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | advcl |
| 13 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 practise | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saving | punct |
| 15 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 choosing | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 making | cc |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 choosing | conj |
| 18 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 making | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 money | case |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 amount | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pocket money | a small regular amount | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a small regular amount not said here | children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | practise | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | choose | gerund | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | save | gerund | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | make | gerund | mistakes | with money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:8.
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. 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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