Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 13

Corner shops often charge more than big supermarkets because they buy smaller amounts and stay open late near you; you pay for convenience.

Who acts: Corner shops, shops, you · What happens: charge, buy, stay, pay · To what, where: more, smaller amounts

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 (Corner shops, shops, you), 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	Corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shops	compound
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 charge	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 charge	advmod
4	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 charge	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 supermarkets	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 supermarkets	amod
8	supermarkets	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 more	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 buy	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 buy	nsubj
11	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	advcl
12	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 amounts	amod
13	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buy	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stay	cc
15	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 buy	conj
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stay	xcomp
17	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 stay	advmod
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 stay	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pay	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 pay	nsubj
22	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 convenience	case
24	convenience	convenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pay	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 charge	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	charge	present	Corner shops	more	often property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location more=Theme
2	buy	present	shops = shop	smaller amounts		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme
3	stay	present	shops = shop not said here		near you; late, open property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location
4	pay	present	you		for convenience	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for convenience=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:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.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): no change. 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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