Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 4
Earn, save, spend wisely, give when you can, ask "says who?" before you believe a promise, and remember that money matters but never measures how good a person is.
Who acts: you, money, person · What happens: earn, save, spend, give, ask, say · To what, where: promise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» 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 (you, money, person), 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 | Earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 3 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Earn | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spend | punct |
| 5 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 save | conj |
| 6 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 5 spend | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 save | conj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 can | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 can | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 save | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 says | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 believe | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 believe | nsubj |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 promise | det |
| 23 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 believe | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 remember | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 remember | cc |
| 26 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 save | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 matters | mark |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 matters | nsubj |
| 29 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 remember | ccomp |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 measures | cc |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 measures | advmod |
| 32 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 matters | conj |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 good | advmod |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 measures | ccomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 person | det |
| 36 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 good | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 good | cop |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Earn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | imperative | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spend | infinitive | you not said here | wisely property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | you not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | believe | present | you | a promise | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | remember | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | matter | present | money | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 10 | not measure | present | money not said here | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | is | present | a person | good property | tree rules |
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:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:4.
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, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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