The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 0

A piggy bank that is hard to open helps you save, because getting money out takes effort, so you do not spend it on a whim.

Who acts: piggy bank, you, getting · What happens: be, open, help, save, get out, take · To what, where: money, effort, whim

This is a sentence of the lesson «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal» 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 (piggy bank, you, getting), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bank	det
2	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bank	compound
3	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 helps	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hard	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	cop
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bank	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 open	mark
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	xcomp
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 save	nsubj
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helps	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 takes	mark
14	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 takes	csubj
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 getting	compound:prt
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 save	advcl
18	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spend	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 spend	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 spend	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 spend	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 spend	advmod
24	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 takes	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spend	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 whim	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 whim	det
28	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spend	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 helps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a piggy bank		hard property	tree rules
2	open	to-infinitive	a piggy bank not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	present	a piggy bank			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	save	infinitive	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	get out	gerund		money		tree rules
6	take	present	getting	effort		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme
7	not spend	present · do-support	you	effort	on a whim goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on whim=Goal

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:009-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal.lesson:0.

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. 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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