Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 10
Very cheap things sometimes break fast, so you pay twice; paying a bit more for something that lasts can save money.
Who acts: cheap things, you · What happens: break, pay, last, save · To what, where: more, money
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 (cheap things, you), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 cheap | advmod |
| 2 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 break | nsubj |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 5 break | advmod |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 break | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pay | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 pay | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 pay | nsubj |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | conj |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 pay | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 paying | punct |
| 13 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 save | nsubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bit | det |
| 15 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 paying | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 something | case |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 more | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lasts | nsubj |
| 20 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 something | acl:relcl |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 save | aux |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pay | parataxis |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 save | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | 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 | break | present | cheap things | fast, sometimes property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | you | twice property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pay | gerund | more | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | |||||
| 4 | last | present | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | save | can | money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:10.
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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