Saving up for a game, sentence 1
Sam wants a £24 game and gets £3 a week: £24 ÷ £3 = 8 weeks, and knowing the number makes the wait feel shorter.
Who acts: Sam, number, wait · What happens: want, get, know, make, feel · To what, where: £ game, wait · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving up for a game» 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 (Sam, number, wait), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 game | compound |
| 5 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gets | cc |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | conj |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 8 gets | obj |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 £ | punct |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 8 gets | obj |
| 15 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 ÷ | compound |
| 16 | ÷ | ÷ | SYM | _ | 14 £ | nummod |
| 17 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 £ | conj |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 £ | nummod |
| 19 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 weeks | punct |
| 20 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 weeks | nummod |
| 21 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knowing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 knowing | cc |
| 24 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gets | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | nsubj |
| 27 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 knowing | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wait | det |
| 29 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | obj |
| 30 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 makes | xcomp |
| 31 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 feel | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Sam | a £ game | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Sam not said here | week | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent £=Beneficiary £=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | Sam not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | present | the number | the wait | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | the wait not said here | short property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:008-saving-up-for-a-game.lesson:1.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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