Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 24
Saving a part of every gift adds up faster than most people expect.
Who acts: Saving, most people · What happens: save, add up, expect · To what, where: part · 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 (Saving, most people), 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 | Saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 adds | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saving | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gift | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 gift | det |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 adds | compound:prt |
| 9 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 adds | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 expect | mark |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 expect | nsubj |
| 13 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 faster | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | gerund | a part of every gift | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||||
| 2 | add up speech: assert | present | Saving | fast property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | expect | present | most people | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:24.
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): 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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