Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 10
Things bought only to fit in often bring little joy.
Who acts: Things · What happens: buy, fit in, bring · To what, where: Things, little joy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday 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 (Things), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Things | acl |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 fit | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fit | mark |
| 5 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bought | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fit | compound:prt |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joy | amod |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | Things not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fit in | to-infinitive | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | Things | little joy | often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent joy=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:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:10.
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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