Prices and change at the till, sentence 13
Prices go up slowly over the years; this is called inflation, which is why grown-ups remember cheaper prices.
Who acts: Prices, grown ups · What happens: go up, call, be, grow, remember · To what, where: this, cheaper prices · 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 (Prices, grown ups), 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 | Prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 slowly | advmod |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 inflation | punct |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 go | parataxis |
| 12 | inflation | inflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 why | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 why | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | cop |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 remember | advmod |
| 17 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ups | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 grown | punct |
| 19 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 remember | nsubj |
| 20 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 inflation | advcl |
| 21 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 prices | amod |
| 22 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 remember | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | present | Prices | year | slowly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | remember | present | grown ups | cheaper prices | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent price=Theme |
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:13.
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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