Taking care of your things and money, sentence 18
Comparing prices before you buy can save money.
Who acts: you, Comparing · What happens: compare, buy, save · To what, where: prices, money
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking care of your things and money» 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 (you, Comparing), 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 | Comparing | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 save | csubj |
| 2 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Comparing | obj |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 buy | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 buy | nsubj |
| 5 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Comparing | advcl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 save | aux |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | gerund | prices | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | |||||
| 2 | buy | present | you | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | save | can | Comparing | money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:037-things-and-money.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): 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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