Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★, sentence 4

Listen past the talk: "I've saved a million quid" is not the number to use, "a tad pricey" may hide a loan that costs half as much again, and when someone says "£5 - no wait, £4" the last number counts.

Who acts: you, someone, I, tad, loan, last number · What happens: listen, save, not be, use, hide, cost · To what, where: million quid, number, loan, much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, someone, I, tad), 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	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADP	_	4 talk	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 talk	det
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Listen	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saved	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saved	aux
9	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 talk	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 quid	det
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 quid	nummod
12	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saved	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 number	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 number	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 number	det
17	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saved	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 use	mark
19	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 number	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tad	det
23	tad	tad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hide	nsubj
24	pricey	pricey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tad	amod
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 pricey	punct
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hide	aux
27	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 loan	det
29	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hide	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 costs	nsubj
31	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 loan	acl:relcl
32	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	34 much	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 costs	obj
35	again	again	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 says	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 says	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 says	advmod
39	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 says	nsubj
40	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 costs	parataxis
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 £	punct
42	£	£	SYM	_	40 says	ccomp
43	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	42 £	nummod
44	-	-	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	46 wait	case
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 wait	det
46	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 £	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 £	punct
48	£	£	SYM	_	42 £	appos
49	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 £	nummod
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 counts	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 number	det
52	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 number	amod
53	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 counts	nsubj
54	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 £	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here		past the talk	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent past talk=Theme
2	save in a quote	present · perfect	someone	a million quid		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quid=Theme
3	not is a	present	I not said here	the number		tree rules
4	use	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	may	a tad	a loan		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient
6	cost	present	a loan	much		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
7	say speech: assert	present	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	count	present	the last number			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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