Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 18

A boy in Ireland gave his savings to an older boy online who promised to "double it by Friday"; the older boy blocked him, and the money was gone for good.

Who acts: boy, older boy, money · What happens: give, promise, double, block, be, save · To what, where: savings, older boy, money, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, older boy, money), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 savings	nmod:poss
7	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 gave	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 boy	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
12	online	online	ADV	_	14 promised	advmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 promised	nsubj
14	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 double	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 double	punct
17	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 promised	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 double	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 Friday	case
20	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 double	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 double	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 blocked	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
24	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 boy	amod
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blocked	nsubj
26	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 blocked	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gone	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 money	det
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gone	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	cop
33	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 blocked	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 good	case
35	good	good	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gone	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	a boy in Ireland	boy's savings	a older boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent savings=Theme to boy=Recipient
2	promise speech: promise	past	a older boy				online property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	double not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a older boy not said here	money		friday		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	block	past	the older boy	Ireland				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
5	is	past	the money				for good; gone property	tree rules
6	save		boy					nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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:18.

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): R6-punct-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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