Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 23

Games often go on sale for much less than their first price, so waiting can save money.

Who acts: Games · What happens: go, wait, save · To what, where: less, sale, money

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 (Games), 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	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 sale	case
5	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	12 price	case
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 less	advmod
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 go	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 price	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 price	nmod:poss
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 price	amod
12	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 less	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waiting	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 save	advmod
15	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 save	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 save	aux
17	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	parataxis
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Games	less	sale	often property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sale=Location
2	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	save	can		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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:23.

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 ×2, 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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