Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 0
Jack spends his whole £10 on the fidget toy everyone has, and two days later nobody cares about fidget toys any more: that is £5 for each day of fun, and a short craze like that is called a fad.
Who acts: Jack, everyone, nobody, that · What happens: spend, have, care, be, call · To what, where: fidget toy, £ 5, short craze · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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 (Jack, everyone, nobody, that), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spends | nsubj |
| 2 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 £ | nmod:poss |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 £ | amod |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 spends | obj |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 toy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 toy | det |
| 9 | fidget | fidget | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 toy | compound |
| 10 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spends | obl |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 toy | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cares | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cares | cc |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 later | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 cares | advmod |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 cares | nsubj |
| 19 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spends | conj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 toys | case |
| 21 | fidget | fidget | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 toys | compound |
| 22 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cares | obl |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 cares | advmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 5 | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 5 | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 5 | cop |
| 28 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 29 5 | compound |
| 29 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 cares | parataxis |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 day | case |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 5 | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fun | case |
| 34 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 day | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 called | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 called | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 craze | det |
| 38 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 craze | amod |
| 39 | craze | craze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 called | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 that | case |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 craze | nmod |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 called | aux:pass |
| 43 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 spends | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 fad | det |
| 45 | fad | fad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 called | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | Jack | on the fidget toy goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent £=Asset on toy=Goal | ||||
| 2 | have | present | everyone | the fidget toy not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | care | present | nobody | about fidget toys; late property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about toy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | £ 5 | day | tree rules | |||
| 5 | call | present · passive | a short craze like that | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:0.
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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