--- title: A meal plan means deciding what to eat each day before shopping, so… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics description: A meal plan means deciding what to eat each day before shopping, so less food is thrown away; wasting £10 of food a week is £40 in four weeks. Who acts: meal plan. 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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 (meal plan), 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:7 # text = A meal plan means deciding what to eat each day before shopping, so less food is thrown away; wasting £10 of food a week is £40 in four weeks. # 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 ×5 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 deciding decide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 ccomp _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj 11 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 wasting waste VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 csubj _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 21 obj _ _ 23 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 £ £ SYM $ _ 4 parataxis _ _ 30 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a meal plan | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **decide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | shopping | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 4 | **throw away** | present · passive | | less food | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **waste** | gerund | | | | | week | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient | 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:7`. **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 ×5. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/6/) - next →: [The weekly shop and a family budget, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/)