Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 11
Some people buy concert tickets only to sell them on for much more; many countries limit this, fake tickets are a real problem, and official sellers are safest.
Who acts: people, many countries, fake tickets, official sellers · What happens: buy, sell on, limit, be · To what, where: concert tickets, tickets, this, real problem
This is a sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts 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 (people, many countries, fake tickets, official sellers), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tickets | compound |
| 5 | tickets | ticket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buy | obj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 sell | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sell | mark |
| 8 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 buy | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sell | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sell | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 on | fixed |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 sell | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 limit | punct |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countries | amod |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 limit | nsubj |
| 17 | limit | limit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | parataxis |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 limit | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 problem | punct |
| 20 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tickets | amod |
| 21 | tickets | ticket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 problem | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 problem | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 problem | det |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 problem | amod |
| 25 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 limit | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 safest | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 safest | cc |
| 28 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sellers | amod |
| 29 | sellers | seller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 safest | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 safest | cop |
| 31 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 problem | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | some people | concert tickets | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sell on | to-infinitive | some people not said here | tickets = ticket | more obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | limit | present | many countries | this | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | fake tickets | a real problem | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | official sellers | safe 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:arts:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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