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title: Small habits add up: a light left on all day costs about 10p, which… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small habits add up: a light left on all day costs about 10p, which is £3 in a month, and paying a bill late can add a fee on top. Who acts: Small habits, light, 10 p, paying. A sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money course of Mova's primary sc
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# Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 4

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Small habits add up: a light left on all day costs about 10p, which is £3 in a month, and paying a bill late can add a fee on top.

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**Who acts:** Small habits, light, 10 p, paying · **What happens:** add up, leave, cost, be, pay, add · **To what, where:** light, 10 p, bill, fee, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» 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 (Small habits, light, 10 p, paying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:4
# text = Small habits add up: a light left on all day costs about 10p, which is £3 in a month, and paying a bill late can add a fee on top.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	compound	_	_
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small habits |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | a light *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cost** | present | a light | 10 p |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme p=Value |
| 4 | **is** | present | 10 p |  |  |  | in a £ month |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** | gerund |  | a bill |  |  |  | late *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | can | paying | a fee |  | top |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Patient |

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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:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:4`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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