Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, sentence 7

Sharing can cost little and mean a lot: Ellie gives 3 of her 10 sweets to a new girl, keeps 10 − 3 = 7, and gains a friend.

Who acts: Sharing, Ellie · What happens: share, cost, mean, give, keep, gain · To what, where: little, lot, 3, new girl, friend

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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 (Sharing, Ellie), 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	Sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 cost	csubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cost	aux
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cost	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mean	cc
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 cost	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct
10	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gives	nsubj
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cost	parataxis
12	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 gives	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 sweets	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sweets	nmod:poss
15	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 sweets	nummod
16	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 3	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 girl	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 girl	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 keeps	punct
22	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gives	conj
23	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 −	nummod
24	−	−	SYM	Number=Sing	22 keeps	obj
25	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 −	flat
26	=	=	SYM	_	27 7	case
27	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 3	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gains	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gains	cc
30	gains	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gives	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 friend	det
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gains	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cost	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	share	gerund				tree rules
2	cost	can	Sharing	little		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme little=Value
3	mean	infinitive	Sharing not said here	a lot		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
4	give	present	Ellie	3 of Ellie's 10 sweets	a new girl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent 3=Theme to girl=Recipient
5	keep	present	Ellie not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent −=Theme
6	gain	present	Ellie not said here	a friend		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

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:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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