When money is tight, sentence 20
Saving up is slower than borrowing but cheaper, because no interest is paid.
Who acts: Saving · What happens: save up, be, borrow, pay · To what, where: interest
This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» 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 (Saving), 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 | Saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 slower | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Saving | compound:prt |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slower | cop |
| 4 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 borrowing | mark |
| 6 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 slower | advcl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 cheaper | cc |
| 8 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 slower | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 paid | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 paid | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 interest | det |
| 12 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 paid | aux:pass |
| 14 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slower | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slower | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save up | gerund | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Saving | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | borrow | gerund | Saving not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | Saving not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | pay | present · passive | no interest | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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