Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 23

A girl in England found trainers for a tenth of the normal price on a strange site; her mum paid, the shoes never came and the card was used for other shopping.

Who acts: girl, mum, shoes · What happens: find, pay, not come, use · To what, where: trainers, strange site, card

This is a sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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 (girl, mum, shoes), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 tenth	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tenth	det
9	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 price	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 price	det
12	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 price	amod
13	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tenth	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 site	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 site	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 site	amod
17	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 paid	punct
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mum	nmod:poss
20	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 paid	nsubj
21	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 paid	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shoes	det
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 came	advmod
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 paid	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 used	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 card	det
29	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 used	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 used	aux:pass
31	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 came	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 shopping	case
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shopping	amod
34	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 used	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	a girl in England	trainers	a strange site	for a tenth of the normal price	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trainer=Theme for tenth=Beneficiary
2	pay	past	girl's mum				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not come	past	the shoes				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	use	past · passive		the card		for other shopping	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for shopping=Eventuality

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:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:23.

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 ×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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