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When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 13

A trade-off is giving up one thing to pay for another, like skipping a £15 takeaway for 2 weeks to save £30 for a school trip.

Who acts: trade off · What happens: give up, pay, skip, save · To what, where: one thing, £ takeaway

This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» 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 (trade off), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

detcompoundpunctnsubjauxcompound:prtnummodobjmarkaclcaseoblpunctmarkadvcldetcompoundflatobjcasenummodoblmarkadvclobjnummodcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootADETtradeNOUN-PUNCToffNOUNisAUXgivingVERBupADPoneNUMthingNOUNtoPARTpayVERBforADPanotherDET,PUNCTlikeSCONJskippingVERBaDET£SYM15NUMtakeawayNOUNforADP2NUMweeksNOUNtoPARTsaveVERB£SYM30NUMforADPaDETschoolNOUNtripNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 offdet
2tradetradeNOUNNumber=Sing4 offcompound
3--PUNCT_2 tradepunct
4offoffNOUNNumber=Sing6 givingnsubj
5isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 givingaux
6givinggiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
7upupADP_6 givingcompound:prt
8oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 thingnummod
9thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing6 givingobj
10totoPART_11 paymark
11paypayVERBVerbForm=Inf9 thingacl
12forforADP_13 anothercase
13anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind11 payobl
14,,PUNCT_16 skippingpunct
15likelikeSCONJ_16 skippingmark
16skippingskipVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 givingadvcl
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 takeawaydet
18££SYM_20 takeawaycompound
191515NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card18 £flat
20takeawaytakeawayNOUNNumber=Sing16 skippingobj
21forforADP_23 weekscase
2222NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card23 weeksnummod
23weeksweekNOUNNumber=Plur16 skippingobl
24totoPART_25 savemark
25savesaveVERBVerbForm=Inf16 skippingadvcl
26££SYM_25 saveobj
273030NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card26 £nummod
28forforADP_31 tripcase
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 tripdet
30schoolschoolNOUNNumber=Sing31 tripcompound
31triptripNOUNNumber=Sing25 saveobl
32..PUNCT_6 givingpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1give uppresent · progressivea trade offone thingvn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Source
2payto-infinitivea trade off not said hereone thing not said herefor anothervn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for another=Theme
3skipgerunda trade off not said herea £ takeawayweekvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent takeaway=Agent
4saveto-infinitivea trade off not said herefor a school tripvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent £=Theme for trip=Source

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:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:13.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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