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title: Families also make big things cheaper: camping instead of flying, bo… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: Families also make big things cheaper: camping instead of flying, booking early, a good used car instead of a new one, or a free bed at an auntie's. Who acts: Families. A sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 3

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Families also make big things cheaper: camping instead of flying, booking early, a good used car instead of a new one, or a free bed at an auntie's.

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**Who acts:** Families · **What happens:** make, camp, fly, book, use · **To what, where:** big things

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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 (Families), 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:3
# text = Families also make big things cheaper: camping instead of flying, booking early, a good used car instead of a new one, or a free bed at an auntie's.
# 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
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	camping	camp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	booking	book	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Families | big things |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 2 | **camp** | gerund | Families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | Families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **book** | gerund | Families *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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:3`.

**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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