Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 2

«Money spent fast is fun fast and gone fast,» said his gran, buttering toast, as if she had been waiting years to say it.

Who acts: Money, gran · What happens: spend, be, go, say, butter, wait · To what, where: Money, toast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 (Money, gran), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
2	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fast	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Money	acl
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 spent	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	cop
6	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fast	amod
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gone	cc
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fast	conj
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 gone	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 gran	nmod:poss
15	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 buttering	punct
17	buttering	butter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
18	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 buttering	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 waiting	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 waiting	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 waiting	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 waiting	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 waiting	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 waiting	aux
25	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 buttering	advcl
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 waiting	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 waiting	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 say	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend in a quote	participle		Money not said here		fast property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Money			fast property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	participle	Money not said here			fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Leo's gran				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	butter	gerund	Leo's gran not said here	toast			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent toast=Destination
6	wait	past · perfect · progressive	gran		year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	gran not said here	toast			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:2.

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, R8-pos-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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