--- title: Bulk buying only saves money on things that last and get used, like… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics description: Bulk buying only saves money on things that last and get used, like rice and pasta, not on food that goes off. Who acts: Bulk buying, things, food. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 9 Bulk buying only saves money on things that last and get used, like rice and pasta, not on food that goes off. **Who acts:** Bulk buying, things, food · **What happens:** save, last, use, go off · **To what, where:** money, things 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 (Bulk buying, things, food), 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:9 # text = Bulk buying only saves money on things that last and get used, like rice and pasta, not on food that goes off. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Bulk bulk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 buying buy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:aux:pass|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | present | Bulk buying | money | | things | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme on thing=Source | | 2 | **last** | present | things | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | things *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | | 4 | **go off** | present | food | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | 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:9`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/8/) - next →: [The weekly shop and a family budget, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/)