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title: A budget is a plan for how much a family will spend; the weekly food… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: A budget is a plan for how much a family will spend; the weekly food shop is where that plan meets real life, one item at a time. Who acts: budget, much family, weekly food shop. A sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 0

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A budget is a plan for how much a family will spend; the weekly food shop is where that plan meets real life, one item at a time.

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**Who acts:** budget, much family, weekly food shop · **What happens:** be, spend · **To what, where:** plan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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 (budget, much family, weekly food shop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:0
# text = A budget is a plan for how much a family will spend; the weekly food shop is where that plan meets real life, one item at a time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a budget | a plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | future | a much family | a plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | present | the weekly food shop |  |  |  |  | meet *property* | tree rules |

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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:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:0`.

**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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