Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 8

Solar power became about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020: what cost ten pounds in 2010 cost about one pound in 2020.

Who acts: Solar power · What happens: become, cost · To what, where: ten pounds, 2010, one pound, 2020

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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 (Solar power), 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	Solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 power	amod
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 ten	advmod
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	obl:unmarked
7	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 became	xcomp
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 2010	case
9	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 cheaper	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 2020	cc
11	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 2010	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 cost	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 cost	nsubj
14	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cost	csubj
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pounds	nummod
16	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cost	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 2010	case
18	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 cost	obl
19	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pound	nummod
22	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cost	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 2020	case
24	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 cost	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Solar power			time	cheap property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	cost	past		ten pounds	2010			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value
3	cost	past	Solar power not said here	one pound	2020			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=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:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:8.

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 ×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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