The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 8
Buying in bulk means buying a lot at once: a 5kg bag of rice at £5 is cheaper than five 1kg bags at £1.50, which cost £7.50, so it saves £2.50.
Who acts: Buying, lot · What happens: buy, mean, be, cost, save · To what, where: kg bag, bulk, lot · 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 (Buying, lot), 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 | Buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 bulk | case |
| 3 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buying | obl |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buying | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | _ | 5 buying | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bag | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bag | det |
| 12 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 kg | nummod |
| 13 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | compound |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buying | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rice | case |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 £ | case |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 16 rice | nmod |
| 19 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | nummod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cheaper | cop |
| 21 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 means | parataxis |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 bags | case |
| 23 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 bags | nummod |
| 24 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 kg | nummod |
| 25 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bags | compound |
| 26 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cheaper | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 £ | case |
| 28 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 26 bags | nmod |
| 29 | 1.50 | 1.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 28 £ | nummod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cost | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 cost | nsubj |
| 32 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 £ | acl:relcl |
| 33 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 32 cost | obj |
| 34 | 7.50 | 7.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 33 £ | nummod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 saves | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 saves | advmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 saves | nsubj |
| 38 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cheaper | conj |
| 39 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 38 saves | obj |
| 40 | 2.50 | 2.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 39 £ | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cheaper | 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 | buy | gerund | a kg bag of rice | bulk | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Buying | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | buy not said to happen | gerund | Buying not said here | a lot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent lot=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is | present | than five kg bags; cheap property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cost | past | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value | ||||||
| 6 | save | present | lot | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=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:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.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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