Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 8
Mystery bags make buying exciting, but you pay for the surprise and often get things you do not want.
Who acts: Mystery bags, you · What happens: make, buy, pay, get, not want · To what, where: things
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 (Mystery bags, 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 | Mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bags | compound |
| 2 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pay | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 pay | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 pay | nsubj |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 surprise | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surprise | det |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pay | conj |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 want | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 want | advmod |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 things | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Mystery bags | exciting property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | ||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | pay | present | you | for the surprise | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for surprise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | you not said here | things | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not want | present · do-support | you | things not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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:8.
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 ×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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