Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 7
"A rainy day" means a time of trouble, so a rainy day fund is money saved for bad surprises.
Who acts: rainy day, rainy day fund · What happens: mean, be, save · To what, where: money
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 (rainy day, rainy day fund), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 money | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 money | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fund | det |
| 14 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fund | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fund | compound |
| 16 | fund | fund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 money | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 money | cop |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 19 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 money | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 surprises | case |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 surprises | amod |
| 22 | surprises | surprise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saved | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a rainy day | time | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a rainy day fund | money | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | participle | money not said here | for bad surprises | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for surprise=Source |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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