The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 9
Bulk buying only saves money on things that last and get used, like rice and pasta, not on food that goes off.
Who acts: Bulk buying, things, food · What happens: save, last, use, go off · To what, where: money, things
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 (Bulk buying, things, food), 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 | Bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buying | compound |
| 2 | buying | buy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saves | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 saves | advmod |
| 4 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saves | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saves | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 last | nsubj |
| 9 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 used | cc |
| 11 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | aux:pass |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 last | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rice | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 rice | case |
| 15 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saves | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pasta | cc |
| 17 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rice | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 food | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 food | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rice | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 goes | nsubj |
| 23 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 food | acl:relcl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 goes | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present | Bulk buying | money | things | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme on thing=Source | |||
| 2 | last | present | things | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | things not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | go off | present | food | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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:9.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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