The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 14
"Pay yourself first" means putting money into savings before spending any.
What happens: pay, mean, put, spend · To what, where: yourself, money, savings, any · 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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pay | punct |
| 2 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Pay | obj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Pay | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pay | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 putting | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 savings | case |
| 10 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 putting | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 spending | mark |
| 12 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 putting | advcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 spending | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | infinitive | yourself | first property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Asset | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | put not said to happen | gerund | money | savings | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent money=Goal | ||||
| 4 | spend | gerund | any | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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:009-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal.lesson:14.
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): 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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