When money is tight, sentence 12
The cost of living is what it costs to pay for a home, food, energy and travel; a crisis is when these rise faster than pay.
Who acts: cost, crisis · What happens: be, cost, pay · To what, where: living
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 (cost, crisis), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cost | det |
| 2 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 living | case |
| 4 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cost | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 costs | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 costs | nsubj |
| 8 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pay | mark |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 costs | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 home | det |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 food | punct |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 home | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 energy | punct |
| 17 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 food | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 travel | cc |
| 19 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 food | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 costs | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 crisis | det |
| 22 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rise | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 rise | cop |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 rise | advmod |
| 25 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 rise | nsubj |
| 26 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 costs | parataxis |
| 27 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 rise | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 pay | case |
| 29 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rise | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
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 a | present | the cost of living | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cost | present | cost | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | cost not said here | for a home and food and energy and travel | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a crisis | than pay; fast, rise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cost | living | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:12.
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 ×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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