Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 43
Losing something has a cost; earning a replacement by chores or saving teaches you to look after things.
Who acts: Losing, earning · What happens: lose, have, earn, save, teach, look · To what, where: something, cost, replacement, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Losing, earning), 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 | Losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 has | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Losing | obj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cost | det |
| 5 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 earning | punct |
| 7 | earning | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 teaches | csubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 replacement | det |
| 9 | replacement | replacement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earning | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 chores | case |
| 11 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 earning | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 saving | cc |
| 13 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 earning | conj |
| 14 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 teaches | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 teaches | xcomp |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | something | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Losing | a cost | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient | ||||
| 3 | earn | gerund | a replacement | by chores | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent replacement=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | gerund | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | present | earning | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | earning not said here | after things | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:43.
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): 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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