The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 12

Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going; this push to keep going is called motivation.

Who acts: coins, Seeing, you, push, your · What happens: see, pile up, help, keep, go, call · To what, where: see jar, you, push · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (coins, Seeing, you, push), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 helps	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coins	nmod:poss
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pile	nsubj
4	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Seeing	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pile	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 a	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jar	det
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 jar	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 through	punct
10	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 see	ccomp
11	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pile	obl
12	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 helps	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obj
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 keep	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 push	punct
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 push	det
18	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	nsubj:pass
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 push	acl
21	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 keep	xcomp
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 called	aux:pass
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 helps	parataxis
24	motivation	motivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 helps	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	gerund			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	pile up	present	your coins	a see jar	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	help	present	Seeing		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	Seeing not said here	you	tree rules
6	go	gerund	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	keep	to-infinitive		this push not said here	tree rules
8	go	gerund	this push not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	call	present · passive		this push	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
10	coin		your		nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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:12.

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 ×4, 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.

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