Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 9
Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spending has to shrink.
Who acts: Rent, landlord, other spending · What happens: be, go up, have, shrink · To what, where: biggest bill
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 (Rent, landlord, other spending), 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 | Rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bill | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bill | cop |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 bill | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bill | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 family | case |
| 7 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 bill | amod |
| 8 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goes | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 goes | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 goes | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 has | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 goes | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spending | amod |
| 17 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bill | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 shrink | mark |
| 20 | shrink | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 has | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bill | 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 | Rent | a family's biggest bill | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go up | present | landlord | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | present | other spending | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shrink | to-infinitive | other spending not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:9.
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, R8-pos-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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