Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 19
A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years.
Who acts: deposit · What happens: buy, be, save, take · To what, where: home, tens, deposit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (deposit), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 deposit | det |
| 2 | deposit | deposit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tens | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 buying | mark |
| 4 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 deposit | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 home | det |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buying | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tens | cop |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 tens | advmod |
| 9 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thousands | case |
| 11 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tens | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pounds | case |
| 13 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thousands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saving | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saving | cc |
| 16 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tens | conj |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saving | obl |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saving | advcl |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tens | 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 | buy | gerund | a deposit not said here | a home | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a deposit | tens | of thousands of pounds; often property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | save | gerund | a deposit not said here | deposit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | can | a deposit not said here | year | vn bring-11.3 «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, 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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:19.
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): R5-strong ×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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