Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 13
He sulks, then works out what £3 a week can save.
Who acts: tight · What happens: sulk, work out, save
This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (tight), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sulks | nsubj |
| 2 | sulks | sulk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 works | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 works | advmod |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sulks | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 works | compound:prt |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 save | obj |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 save | nsubj |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 £ | nummod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 save | aux |
| 13 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 works | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sulks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sulk | present | tight | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | work out | present | tight not said here | then | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | save | can | week | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:13.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/13/