Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 1
Big is not always cheaper: a 100 g pack for £1 is 1p a gram, while a 300 g "giant" pack for £3.30 is 1.1p a gram, so the giant one is dearer per gram; shelf labels often show the unit price in small print.
Who acts: Big, g pack, giant one, shelf labels · What happens: not be, be, show · To what, where: p gram, 1.1p, unit price
This is a sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» 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 (Big, g pack, giant one, shelf labels), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cheaper | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheaper | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cheaper | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 cheaper | advmod |
| 5 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 pack | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pack | det |
| 8 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 g | nummod |
| 9 | g | g | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pack | compound |
| 10 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gram | nsubj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 £ | case |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 pack | nmod |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gram | cop |
| 15 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 p | nummod |
| 16 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gram | compound |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gram | det |
| 18 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cheaper | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pack | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 pack | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pack | det |
| 22 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 g | nummod |
| 23 | g | g | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pack | compound |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 giant | punct |
| 25 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pack | amod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 giant | punct |
| 27 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gram | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 £ | case |
| 29 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 27 pack | nmod |
| 30 | 3.30 | 3.30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 29 £ | nummod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 1.1p | cop |
| 32 | 1.1p | 1.1p | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 pack | nmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 gram | det |
| 34 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 1.1p | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dearer | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 dearer | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 one | det |
| 38 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 one | amod |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dearer | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 dearer | cop |
| 41 | dearer | dear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 gram | parataxis |
| 42 | per | per | ADP | _ | 43 gram | case |
| 43 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dearer | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 show | punct |
| 45 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 labels | compound |
| 46 | labels | label | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 show | nsubj |
| 47 | often | often | ADV | _ | 48 show | advmod |
| 48 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 dearer | advcl |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 price | det |
| 50 | unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 price | compound |
| 51 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 show | obj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 print | case |
| 53 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 print | amod |
| 54 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 show | obl | ||
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheaper | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Big | always, cheap property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a g pack | a p gram and a g giant pack | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | 1.1p | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the giant one | per gram; dear property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | show | present | shelf labels | the unit price | in small print; often property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Patient in print=Topic |
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:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:1.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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