--- title: A girl in Australia bought a cheap toy that broke the next day, then… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Australia bought a cheap toy that broke the next day, then another, then another; in the end she had spent more than a good toy would have cost. Who acts: girl, cheap toy, good toy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, cheap toy, good toy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:21 # text = A girl in Australia bought a cheap toy that broke the next day, then another, then another; in the end she had spent more than a good toy would have cost. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 5 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 5 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 obj _ _ 28 than than SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 34 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | past | a girl in Australia | a cheap toy | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme | | 2 | **break** | past | a cheap toy | | | | day | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **spend** | past · perfect | girl | more | | | in the end | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | | 4 | **cost** | would | a good toy | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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](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:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:21`. **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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