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title: Buying in bulk means buying a lot at once: a 5kg bag of rice at £5 i… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: Buying in bulk means buying a lot at once: a 5kg bag of rice at £5 is cheaper than five 1kg bags at £1.50, which cost £7.50, so it saves £2.50. Who acts: Buying, lot. 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 
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# The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 8

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Buying in bulk means buying a lot at once: a 5kg bag of rice at £5 is cheaper than five 1kg bags at £1.50, which cost £7.50, so it saves £2.50.

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**Who acts:** Buying, lot · **What happens:** buy, mean, be, cost, save · **To what, where:** kg bag, bulk, lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Buying, lot), 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:8
# text = Buying in bulk means buying a lot at once: a 5kg bag of rice at £5 is cheaper than five 1kg bags at £1.50, which cost £7.50, so it saves £2.50.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	kg	kg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	nmod	_	_
19	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nummod
25	kg	kg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	nmod	_	_
29	1.50	1.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	28	nummod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	£	£	SYM	$	_	32	obj	_	_
34	7.50	7.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	33	nummod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
39	£	£	SYM	$	_	38	obj	_	_
40	2.50	2.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	39	flat	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **buy** | gerund |  | a kg bag of rice |  | bulk |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Buying |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **buy** *not said to happen* | gerund | Buying *not said here* | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent lot=Theme at once=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than five kg bags; cheap *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cost** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 6 | **save** | present | lot |  |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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