--- title: Big things like a holiday, a boiler or Christmas cost more than a fa… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics description: Big things like a holiday, a boiler or Christmas cost more than a family has spare in any one month, so families save a bit every month until the pot is big enough. Who acts: Big things, family, families, pot. 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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 (Big things, family, families, pot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:0 # text = Big things like a holiday, a boiler or Christmas cost more than a family has spare in any one month, so families save a bit every month until the pot is big enough. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boiler boiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 13 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 spare spare NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 35 enough enough ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | present | Big things like a holiday and a boiler or Christmas | more | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | | 2 | **have** | present | Big things like a holiday and a boiler or Christmas *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spare** | | a family | | | | month | | tree rules | | 4 | **save** | present | families | a bit | | | month | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the pot | | | | | big, enough *property* | tree rules | 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:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/15/) - next →: [Saving for holidays and big things, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/)