Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 14
Making something yourself can be cheaper and more special than buying it.
Who acts: Making · What happens: make, be, buy · To what, where: something, maker
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 (Making), 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 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cheaper | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Making | obj |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 something | nmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheaper | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cheaper | cop |
| 6 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 special | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 special | advmod |
| 9 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cheaper | conj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 buying | mark |
| 11 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 special | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 buying | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheaper | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | something | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product | |||||
| 2 | is | can | Making | cheap property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Making not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | buy | gerund | Making not said here | maker | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:14.
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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