Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 11
Booking early is often cheaper, because prices rise as dates get closer; a trip at £400 in January might cost £800 in July.
Who acts: Booking, prices, dates, trip · What happens: book, be, rise, get, cost
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 (Booking, prices, dates, trip), 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 | Booking | book | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 cheaper | csubj |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Booking | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheaper | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 cheaper | advmod |
| 5 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rise | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 rise | mark |
| 8 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rise | nsubj |
| 9 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheaper | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 11 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rise | advcl |
| 13 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 trip | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 trip | det |
| 16 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cost | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 £ | case |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 16 trip | nmod |
| 19 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | nummod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 January | case |
| 21 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cost | obl |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 cost | aux |
| 23 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cheaper | parataxis |
| 24 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 23 cost | obj |
| 25 | 800 | 800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 £ | nummod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 July | case |
| 27 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cost | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheaper | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | book | gerund | early property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Booking | cheap, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | present | prices | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | dates | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | cost | might | a trip | january; july | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
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:11.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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