--- title: A budget is a plan for how much to spend; a shopping list helps a fa… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics description: A budget is a plan for how much to spend; a shopping list helps a family buy only what it needs. Who acts: budget, shopping list, family, list. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [The weekly shop and a family budget](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/) / 5 # The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 5 A budget is a plan for how much to spend; a shopping list helps a family buy only what it needs. **Who acts:** budget, shopping list, family, list · **What happens:** be, spend, help, buy, need · **To what, where:** plan, family 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, shopping list, family, list), 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:5 # text = A budget is a plan for how much to spend; a shopping list helps a family buy only what it needs. # 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 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 _ 8 case _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a budget | a plan | | | | for much | tree rules | | 2 | **spend** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | present | a shopping list | a family | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **buy** | infinitive | a family *not said here* | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 5 | **need** | present | list | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:money:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [The weekly shop and a family budget, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/4/) - next →: [The weekly shop and a family budget, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/)