Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 13
Writing savings goals down helps a family choose what comes first; goals of £600, £1,500 and £400 add up to £2,500.
Who acts: Writing, family, goals · What happens: write down, help, choose, come, add up · To what, where: savings goals
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 (Writing, family, goals), 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 | Writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 helps | csubj |
| 2 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 goals | compound |
| 3 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Writing | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Writing | advmod |
| 5 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 choose | nsubj |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helps | xcomp |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 choose | ccomp |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 comes | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 goals | punct |
| 13 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 add | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 £ | case |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 goals | nmod |
| 16 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 £ | punct |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 £ | conj |
| 19 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | nummod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 £ | cc |
| 21 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 £ | conj |
| 22 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 £ | nummod |
| 23 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helps | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 add | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 £ | case |
| 26 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 23 add | obl |
| 27 | 2,500 | 2,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 £ | nummod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | gerund | savings goals | down property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Writing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | a family | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | present | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | add up speech: assert | infinitive | goals | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to £=Co-Patient |
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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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