Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 21

A girl in Australia bought a cheap toy that broke the next day, then another, then another; in the end she had spent more than a good toy would have cost.

Who acts: girl, cheap toy, good toy · What happens: buy, break, spend, cost · To what, where: cheap toy, 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 (girl, cheap toy, good toy), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toy	det
7	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toy	amod
8	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 broke	nsubj
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 toy	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broke	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 another	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 another	advmod
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bought	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 another	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 another	advmod
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bought	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spent	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spent	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spent	aux
26	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 bought	parataxis
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 spent	obj
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 cost	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 toy	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 toy	amod
31	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cost	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 cost	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 cost	aux
34	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 more	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	buy	past	a girl in Australia	a cheap toy		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme
2	break	past	a cheap toy		day	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	spend	past · perfect	girl	more	in the end	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset
4	cost	would	a good toy			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:21.

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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