Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 0

Big things like a holiday, a boiler or Christmas cost more than a family has spare in any one month, so families save a bit every month until the pot is big enough.

Who acts: Big things, family, families, pot · What happens: cost, have, spare, save, be · To what, where: more, bit

This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» 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 (Big things, family, families, pot), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cost	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 holiday	det
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 things	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boiler	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boiler	det
8	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holiday	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 Christmas	cc
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 boiler	conj
11	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 cost	obj
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 family	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 family	det
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spare	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cost	advcl
17	spare	spare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 month	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 month	det
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 month	nummod
21	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spare	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 save	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 save	advmod
24	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 save	nsubj
25	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cost	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bit	det
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 save	obj
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 month	det
29	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 save	obl:unmarked
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 big	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pot	det
32	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 big	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 big	cop
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 save	advcl
35	enough	enough	ADV	_	34 big	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cost	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Big things like a holiday and a boiler or Christmas	more			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
2	have	present	Big things like a holiday and a boiler or Christmas not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	spare		a family		month		tree rules
4	save	present	families	a bit	month		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
5	is	present	the pot			big, enough property	tree rules

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:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:0.

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, R7-rel-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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