Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★, sentence 11

Paying a little each week for a long time (a loan or "pay later") usually costs more in total than paying the price at once.

Who acts: loan, Paying · What happens: pay, cost · To what, where: little, more, total, price

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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 (loan, Paying), 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	Paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 costs	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Paying	obj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paying	obl:unmarked
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paying	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 loan	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 loan	det
12	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 pay	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pay	punct
15	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 loan	acl:relcl
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 pay	advmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pay	punct
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 loan	punct
19	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 costs	advmod
20	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 costs	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 total	case
23	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 more	nmod
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 paying	mark
25	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 costs	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 price	det
27	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paying	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 paying	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 costs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund		a little		time; week		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Asset
2	pay in a quote	infinitive	a loan not said here				late property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cost	present	Paying	more	total		usually property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
4	pay	gerund	Paying not said here	the price				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset

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:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:11.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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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