Prices and change at the till, sentence 11
Different shops charge different prices for the same thing; checking a few shops is called shopping around.
Who acts: Different shops, checking · What happens: charge, check, call, shop around · To what, where: different prices, few shops · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices and change at the till» 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 (Different shops, checking), 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 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shops | amod |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 charge | nsubj |
| 3 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prices | amod |
| 5 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 charge | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 thing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charge | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 11 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 called | csubj:pass |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shops | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shops | amod |
| 14 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 checking | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 charge | parataxis |
| 17 | shopping | shop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 shopping | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | present | Different shops | different prices | for the same thing | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Patient for thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | check | gerund | a few shops | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | present · passive | checking | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | shop around | gerund | checking not said here | around property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:11.
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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