--- title: Cheaper choices can be just as fun: camping at £500 instead of £2,00… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics description: Cheaper choices can be just as fun: camping at £500 instead of £2,000 abroad costs a quarter, because £2,000 ÷ 4 = £500. Who acts: Cheaper choices. 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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 (Cheaper choices), 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:8 # text = Cheaper choices can be just as fun: camping at £500 instead of £2,000 abroad costs a quarter, because £2,000 ÷ 4 = £500. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cheaper cheap ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 camping camp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 nsubj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 £ £ SYM $ _ 9 obl _ _ 12 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 13 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 9 obl _ _ 16 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 17 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 28 mark _ _ 23 £ £ SYM $ _ 28 nsubj _ _ 24 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 25 ÷ ÷ SYM SYM Number=Sing 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 26 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 conj _ _ 27 = = PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 £ £ SYM $ _ 18 advcl _ _ 29 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | Cheaper choices | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **camp** | gerund | | | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at £=Location | | 3 | **cost** | present | | a quarter | | | | abroad *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme quarter=Value | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Saving for holidays and big things, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/7/) - next →: [Saving for holidays and big things, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/)