Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 8
Cheaper choices can be just as fun: camping at £500 instead of £2,000 abroad costs a quarter, because £2,000 ÷ 4 = £500.
Who acts: Cheaper choices · What happens: be, camp, cost · To what, where: quarter
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 (Cheaper choices), 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 | Cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 choices | amod |
| 2 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fun | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fun | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fun | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 fun | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fun | advmod |
| 7 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 fun | punct |
| 9 | camping | camp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 costs | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 £ | case |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 camping | obl |
| 12 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 £ | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 camping | obl |
| 16 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 18 costs | advmod |
| 18 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fun | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 quarter | det |
| 20 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 costs | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 £ | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 28 £ | mark |
| 23 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 28 £ | nsubj |
| 24 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 £ | nummod |
| 25 | ÷ | ÷ | SYM | Number=Sing | 26 4 | cc |
| 26 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 2,000 | conj |
| 27 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 28 £ | punct |
| 28 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 18 costs | advcl |
| 29 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 £ | nummod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Cheaper choices | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | camp | gerund | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at £=Location | ||||||
| 3 | cost | present | a quarter | abroad property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme quarter=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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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