Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 28
Spending some of your money on someone else can be one of the best ways to enjoy it.
Who acts: Spending · What happens: spend, be, enjoy · To what, where: some, someone, one, 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 (Spending), 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 | Spending | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 one | csubj |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Spending | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 some | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 someone | case |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Spending | obl |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 someone | advmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 one | cop |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ways | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ways | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 ways | amod |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 enjoy | mark |
| 17 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ways | acl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enjoy | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | gerund | some | on someone goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent some=Asset on someone=Goal | ||||
| 2 | is a | can | Spending | one | of the best ways | tree rules | |||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | Spending not said here | Money | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:28.
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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