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title: Knowing a few simple meals saves money and keeps you healthy; adults… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing a few simple meals saves money and keeps you healthy; adults who cannot cook spend much more on takeaways and ready meals. Who acts: Knowing, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 6

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Knowing a few simple meals saves money and keeps you healthy; adults who cannot cook spend much more on takeaways and ready meals.

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**Who acts:** Knowing, adults · **What happens:** know, save, keep, not cook, spend · **To what, where:** few simple meals, money, you, more, takeaways

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (Knowing, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:6
# text = Knowing a few simple meals saves money and keeps you healthy; adults who cannot cook spend much more on takeaways and ready meals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	takeaways	takeaway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  | a few simple meals |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |
| 2 | **save** | present | Knowing | money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | present | Knowing *not said here* | you |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **cook** | can | adults |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **spend** | infinitive | adults | more |  |  |  | on takeaways and ready meals *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent more=Asset on takeaway=Goal |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:6`.

**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.

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