Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 9
Saving a little every week adds up: £10 a week for 52 weeks is £520.
Who acts: Saving · What happens: save, add up · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Saving), 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 | Saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 adds | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saving | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saving | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 adds | compound:prt |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 adds | punct |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 17 £ | nsubj |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 £ | nummod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 £ | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 weeks | case |
| 14 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 weeks | nummod |
| 15 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 week | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 £ | cop |
| 17 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 adds | parataxis |
| 18 | 520 | 520 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 £ | nummod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | gerund | a little | week | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add up speech: assert | present | Saving | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:9.
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 ×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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