The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 5
A piggy bank that is hard to open makes it harder to spend savings on a whim.
Who acts: piggy bank · What happens: be, open, make, spend · To what, where: savings, 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), 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 makes | 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 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 harder | nsubj |
| 11 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spend | mark |
| 13 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 harder | xcomp |
| 14 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 spend | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 whim | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 whim | det |
| 17 | whim | whim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spend | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | make | present | a piggy bank | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | a piggy bank not said here | savings | on a whim goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent savings=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:5.
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): no change. 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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