Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 12
Depreciation is when something loses value over time; a £20,000 new car may be worth £16,000 after one year, losing £4,000.
Who acts: Depreciation, something, £ new car · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: value
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 (Depreciation, something, £ new car), 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 | Depreciation | depreciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 loses | advmod |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 loses | nsubj |
| 5 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | ccomp |
| 6 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loses | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loses | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 car | det |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 car | compound |
| 12 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 car | amod |
| 14 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worth | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 worth | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 worth | cop |
| 17 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 17 worth | obj |
| 19 | 16,000 | 16,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | nummod |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 year | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 year | nummod |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 £ | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 losing | punct |
| 24 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 worth | advcl |
| 25 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 24 losing | obj |
| 26 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 £ | nummod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Depreciation | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | present | something | value | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | may | a £ new car | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | gerund | a £ new car not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality |
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:12.
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 ×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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