Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 13
Cheap things that break quickly can cost more in the end than something that lasts.
Who acts: Cheap things · What happens: break, cost, last · To what, where: more, end
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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 (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 | Cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 break | nsubj |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 things | acl:relcl |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 break | advmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cost | aux |
| 7 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 cost | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cost | obl |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 something | case |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 end | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lasts | nsubj |
| 15 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 something | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Cheap things | quickly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cost | can | Cheap things | more | in the end than something | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | |||
| 3 | last | present | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:13.
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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