When money is tight, sentence 6
Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.
Who acts: children · What happens: choose · To what, where: cheap fun
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 (children), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 choose | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fun | det |
| 5 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fun | amod |
| 6 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 picnic | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 picnic | det |
| 9 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fun | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trip | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 trip | det |
| 12 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trip | compound |
| 13 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picnic | conj |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 cinema | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cinema | det |
| 17 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picnic | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | children = child | the cheap fun | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Theme |
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:6.
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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