Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 3

Families also make big things cheaper: camping instead of flying, booking early, a good used car instead of a new one, or a free bed at an auntie's.

Who acts: Families · What happens: make, camp, fly, book, use · To what, where: big things

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 (Families), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
6	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 camping	punct
8	camping	camp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 make	advcl
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 flying	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 camping	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 booking	punct
13	booking	book	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 make	advcl
14	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 booking	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 car	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 car	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 car	amod
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 car	amod
19	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	conj
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	24 one	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 car	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bed	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 bed	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bed	det
28	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bed	amod
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 one	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 auntie	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 auntie	det
32	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bed	nmod
33	's	's	PART	_	32 auntie	case
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Families	big things	cheap property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product
2	camp	gerund	Families not said here			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	fly	gerund	Families not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	book	gerund	Families not said here		early property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	use	participle				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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. 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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