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title: Staying with family instead of a hotel saves money: 5 nights at £80… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: Staying with family instead of a hotel saves money: 5 nights at £80 is £400 saved. Who acts: Staying. A sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 14

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Staying with family instead of a hotel saves money: 5 nights at £80 is £400 saved.

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**Who acts:** Staying · **What happens:** stay, save · **To what, where:** hotel, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» 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 (Staying), 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:14
# text = Staying with family instead of a hotel saves money: 5 nights at £80 is £400 saved.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	7	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	nmod	_	_
15	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	dep	_	_
18	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **stay** | gerund |  | a hotel |  |  |  | with family | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=Location |
| 2 | **save** | present | Staying | money and 5 nights |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:14`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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