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title: A packed lunch costs about £1.50 instead of £4 for a bought lunch, s… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: A packed lunch costs about £1.50 instead of £4 for a bought lunch, saving £2.50 a day, or £12.50 over five school days. Who acts: packed lunch. A sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 15

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A packed lunch costs about £1.50 instead of £4 for a bought lunch, saving £2.50 a day, or £12.50 over five school days.

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**Who acts:** packed lunch · **What happens:** cost, buy, save

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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 (packed lunch), 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:15
# text = A packed lunch costs about £1.50 instead of £4 for a bought lunch, saving £2.50 a day, or £12.50 over five school days.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	packed	packed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
7	1.50	1.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	conj	_	_
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obj	_	_
19	2.50	2.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	conj	_	_
25	12.50	12.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cost** | present | a packed lunch |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 2 | **buy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | a packed lunch *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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.

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

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