When money is tight, sentence 14

Own-brand food is often made in a similar way to famous brands but costs less because there is no big advertising.

Who acts: big advertising · What happens: make, cost, be · To what, where: brand food, similar way

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 (big advertising), 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	Own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brand	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 brand	punct
3	brand	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	compound
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 way	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 brands	case
13	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brands	amod
14	brands	brand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 way	nmod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 costs	cc
16	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
17	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 costs	advmod
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 costs	advcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 advertising	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 advertising	amod
23	advertising	advertising	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		brand food	a similar way to famous brands	often property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	cost	present				less property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	be	present	no big advertising		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:14.

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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