Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 12
Paying a little more for something that lasts can cost less in the end than cheap things that break.
Who acts: Paying, cheap things · What happens: pay, last, cost, break · To what, where: more, less, end
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 (Paying, cheap 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 | Paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cost | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 more | obl |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Paying | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Paying | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lasts | nsubj |
| 8 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cost | aux |
| 10 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 cost | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cost | obl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 things | case |
| 16 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 break | nsubj |
| 19 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 things | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cost | 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 | pay | gerund | more | for something | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Asset for something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | last | present | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | cost | can | Paying | less | in the end than cheap things | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value | |||
| 4 | break | present | cheap things | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:12.
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 ×2. 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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