«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, sentence 14
A market stall in Cape Town said «BUY 2, GET 1 FREE!» Zara's gran did the sums: one cost R20 (twenty rand, South African money) last week, and three now cost R60 — the same as before.
Who acts: market stall, «, gran, three · What happens: say, buy, get, do, cost · To what, where: 2, sums, R60 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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 (market stall, «, gran, three), 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 | 3 stall | det |
| 2 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stall | compound |
| 3 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Town | case |
| 5 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Town | compound |
| 6 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stall | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | « | « | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 BUY | nsubj |
| 9 | BUY | buy | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 BUY | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 GET | punct |
| 12 | GET | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 BUY | parataxis |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 FREE | compound |
| 14 | FREE | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 GET | xcomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 GET | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 gran | punct |
| 17 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gran | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Zara | case |
| 19 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sums | det |
| 22 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 did | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 week | punct |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 cost | nummod |
| 25 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 week | compound |
| 26 | R20 | R20 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cost | appos |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 rand | punct |
| 28 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 rand | nummod |
| 29 | rand | rand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cost | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 money | punct |
| 31 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 money | compound |
| 32 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 money | amod |
| 33 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rand | conj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 rand | punct |
| 35 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 week | amod |
| 36 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sums | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cost | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 cost | cc |
| 39 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 cost | nsubj |
| 40 | now | now | ADV | _ | 41 cost | advmod |
| 41 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sums | conj |
| 42 | R60 | R60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 cost | obj |
| 43 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 same | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 same | det |
| 45 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sums | parataxis |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 before | case |
| 47 | before | before | ADV | _ | 45 same | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | a market stall in Cape Town | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | infinitive | « | 2 | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | do | past | Zara's gran | the sums and cost last week | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | cost | present | three | R60 | now | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme r60=Value |
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:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:14.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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