Best buys and offers, sentence 1

To see how much a box saves, find what a dozen loose things cost, then take away the box price, both in cents.

Who acts: you, box, dozen loose things · What happens: see, save, find, cost, take away · To what, where: cents, box price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Best buys and offers» of the lessons 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 (you, box, dozen loose things), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 find	advcl
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saves	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saves	nsubj
7	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 cost	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dozen	det
12	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 things	nummod
13	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cost	nsubj
15	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 find	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 take	advmod
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 find	parataxis
19	away	away	ADP	_	18 take	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 price	det
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 price	compound
22	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cents	punct
24	both	both	ADV	_	26 cents	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 cents	case
26	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 cents	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	you not said here		cents		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	save	present	a box				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	imperative	you not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	cost	present	dozen loose things				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value
5	take away	infinitive		the box price		then	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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:lessons:246-best-buys-and-offers.lesson:1.

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 ×3, 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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