Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 19
"Market correction" means a big fall in prices on the markets.
Who acts: Market correction · What happens: mean · To what, where: big fall
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms 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 (Market correction), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 correction | punct |
| 2 | Market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 correction | compound |
| 3 | correction | correction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 correction | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fall | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fall | amod |
| 8 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 prices | case |
| 10 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fall | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 markets | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 markets | det |
| 13 | markets | market | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 prices | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Market correction | a big fall | in prices on the markets | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fall=Theme in price=Attribute |
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:euphemisms:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:19.
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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