--- title: Listen past the talk: "I've saved a million quid" is not the number… — Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be… · tree and pragmatics description: Listen past the talk: "I've saved a million quid" is not the number to use, "a tad pricey" may hide a loan that costs half as much again, and when someone says "£5 - no wait, £4" the last number counts. Who acts: you, someone, I, tad. 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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 (you, someone, I, tad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:4 # text = Listen past the talk: "I've saved a million quid" is not the number to use, "a tad pricey" may hide a loan that costs half as much again, and when someone says "£5 - no wait, £4" the last number counts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 past past ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 quid quid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tad tad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 pricey pricey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 34 advmod _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ _ 35 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 nsubj _ _ 40 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 £ £ SYM $ _ 40 ccomp _ _ 43 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 44 - - SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 46 case _ _ 45 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 46 det _ _ 46 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 £ £ SYM $ _ 42 appos _ _ 49 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 50 " " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 54 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | past the talk | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent past talk=Theme | | 2 | **save** *in a quote* | present · perfect | someone | a million quid | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quid=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | I *not said here* | the number | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | may | a tad | a loan | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient | | 6 | **cost** | present | a loan | much | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | someone | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **count** | present | the last number | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:4`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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