Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 3
Shops do it too: a "pre-owned" car is simply a used car, and a "price adjustment" is nearly always a price rise.
Who acts: Shops, pre-owned car, price adjustment · What happens: do, be · To what, where: home, used car, price rise
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (Shops, pre-owned car, price adjustment), 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 | Shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 do | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 do | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 car | det |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pre-owned | punct |
| 8 | pre-owned | pre-owned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 car | amod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pre-owned | punct |
| 10 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 car | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 car | cop |
| 12 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 15 car | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 14 | used | used | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 car | amod |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rise | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rise | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 adjustment | det |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 adjustment | punct |
| 20 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adjustment | compound |
| 21 | adjustment | adjustment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rise | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 adjustment | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 rise | cop |
| 24 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 25 always | advmod |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 rise | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rise | det |
| 27 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rise | compound |
| 28 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 car | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Shops | home | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a pre-owned car | a used car and a price rise | simply property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a price adjustment | a price rise | always 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:euphemisms:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:3.
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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