Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 18
"Dynamic pricing" means raising prices when demand is high, that is, when lots of people want to buy.
Who acts: Dynamic pricing, demand, lots · What happens: mean, raise, be, want, buy · To what, where: prices
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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 (Dynamic pricing, demand, lots), 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 pricing | punct |
| 2 | Dynamic | dynamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pricing | amod |
| 3 | pricing | pricing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pricing | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 raising | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 high | advmod |
| 9 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 high | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | cop |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 raising | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 want | discourse |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 that | fixed |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 want | advmod |
| 17 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 want | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lots | nmod |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 buy | mark |
| 22 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 want | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | Dynamic pricing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | raise not said to happen | gerund | Dynamic pricing not said here | prices | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | demand | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | want | present | lots of people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | lots of people not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:18.
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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