When money is tight, sentence 13
A sale lowers prices; a bargain is only a bargain if you would have bought the thing anyway.
Who acts: sale, bargain, you · What happens: lower, be, buy · To what, where: prices, bargain, thing
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 (sale, bargain, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sale | det |
| 2 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lowers | nsubj |
| 3 | lowers | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lowers | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 bargain | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bargain | det |
| 7 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bargain | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bargain | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 bargain | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bargain | det |
| 11 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lowers | parataxis |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 bought | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bought | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bought | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bought | aux |
| 16 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 bargain | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bought | obj |
| 19 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 16 bought | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lowers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | present | a sale | prices | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a bargain | a bargain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buy a condition, not said to happen | would · perfect | you | the thing | anyway property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
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:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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