Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 15

"Tight" is British slang for not wanting to spend money; "rip-off" means something that costs far more than it is worth.

Who acts: rip off, off · What happens: be, not want, spend, mean, cost · To what, where: British slang, money, something, more

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 (rip off, off), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tight	punct
2	Tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tight	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slang	cop
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slang	amod
6	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tight	conj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 wanting	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wanting	advmod
9	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 slang	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 spend	mark
11	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanting	xcomp
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spend	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 off	punct
15	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 off	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 off	punct
17	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	nsubj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 off	punct
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tight	parataxis
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 means	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 costs	nsubj
22	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 something	acl:relcl
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 costs	obj
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 worth	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 worth	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 worth	cop
28	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 more	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tight	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		British slang		tree rules
2	not want	gerund				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	spend not said to happen	to-infinitive		money		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
4	mean	present	rip off	something		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
5	cost	present		more		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
6	is	present	off		worth property	tree rules

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:15.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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