The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 7

A meal plan means deciding what to eat each day before shopping, so less food is thrown away; wasting £10 of food a week is £40 in four weeks.

Who acts: meal plan · What happens: mean, decide, eat, throw away, waste · To what, where: shopping, less food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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 (meal plan), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plan	det
2	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plan	compound
3	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	deciding	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	ccomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 eat	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 deciding	ccomp
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 shopping	mark
12	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thrown	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 thrown	advmod
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 food	amod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrown	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thrown	aux:pass
18	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 deciding	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 thrown	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wasting	punct
21	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 £	csubj
22	£	£	SYM	_	21 wasting	obj
23	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 £	nummod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 food	case
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 £	nmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 week	det
27	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wasting	obl:unmarked
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 £	cop
29	£	£	SYM	_	4 means	parataxis
30	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 £	nummod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 weeks	case
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 weeks	nummod
33	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 £	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a meal plan				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	decide	gerund					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		shopping	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
4	throw away	present · passive		less food		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	waste	gerund			week		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient

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:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:7.

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 ×5. 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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