Spoiling and losing things, sentence 14
Buying things on impulse often means having no money for the things you really want.
Who acts: Buying, you · What happens: buy, mean, have, want · To what, where: things, impulse, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoiling and losing things» 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 (Buying, you), 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 | Buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | csubj |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Buying | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 impulse | case |
| 4 | impulse | impulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buying | obl |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 money | det |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 money | nmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 want | advmod |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | 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 | buy | gerund | things | impulse | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Buying | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | no money | for the things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | present | you | the things not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike.lesson:14.
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, R7-rel-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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