When money is tight, sentence 11
Inflation means prices rise over time, so the same pound buys less; if pay rises more slowly, families are worse off.
Who acts: Inflation, prices, same pound, pay, families · What happens: mean, rise, buys, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» of the adult life 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 (Inflation, prices, same pound, pay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inflation | inflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rise | nsubj |
| 4 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rise | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pound | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 buys | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pound | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pound | amod |
| 11 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buys | nsubj |
| 12 | buys | buys | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rise | conj |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 buys | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 worse | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 rises | mark |
| 16 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rises | nsubj |
| 17 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 worse | advcl |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 slowly | advmod |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 rises | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slowly | punct |
| 21 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 worse | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 worse | cop |
| 23 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 means | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 worse | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Inflation | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rise | present | prices | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | buys | present | the same pound | less property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rise a condition, not said to happen | present | pay | slowly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | families | bad 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, 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:adult-life:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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