Prices, change, borrowing and lending, sentence 7
A price like $4.99 is almost $5; shops use such prices to make things seem cheaper.
Who acts: shops, things · What happens: use, make, seem · To what, where: such prices
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» of the everyday 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, things), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 price | det |
| 2 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 $ | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 $ | case |
| 4 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 2 price | nmod |
| 5 | 4.99 | 4.99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 $ | nummod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 $ | cop |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 $ | advmod |
| 8 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 $ | nummod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
| 11 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 use | nsubj |
| 12 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 $ | parataxis |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prices | amod |
| 14 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 use | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 use | advcl |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seem | nsubj |
| 18 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 seem | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 $ | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | shops | such prices | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | shops not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | things | cheap property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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