What money is and why people accept it, sentence 10
If a country prints far too much money while there are no more things to buy, prices go up and nobody is richer.
Who acts: country, more things, prices, nobody · What happens: print, be, buy, go up · To what, where: much money
This is a sentence of the lesson «What money is and why people accept it» of the money 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 (country, more things, prices, nobody), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 prints | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prints | nsubj |
| 4 | prints | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | advcl | |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 much | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 money | amod |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prints | obj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 are | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prints | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 are | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buy | mark |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 things | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 18 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 richer | cc |
| 22 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 richer | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 richer | cop |
| 24 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 go | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | print a condition, not said to happen | present | a country | much money | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | does | present | more things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | more things not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go up | present | prices | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | is | present | nobody | rich property | tree rules |
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:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:10.
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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