Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 7

Some shops raise a price before a sale so that the discount looks bigger; price-tracking websites show what something really cost before.

Who acts: shops, discount, tracking websites, something · What happens: raise, look, show, cost · To what, where: price, sale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shops, discount, tracking websites, something), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 shops	det
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raise	nsubj
3	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 price	det
5	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 sale	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sale	det
8	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 looks	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 discount	det
12	discount	discount	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raise	advcl
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 looks	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 show	punct
16	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tracking	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 price	punct
18	tracking	tracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 websites	compound
19	websites	website	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 show	nsubj
20	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raise	parataxis
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 cost	obj
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 cost	nsubj
23	really	really	ADV	_	24 cost	advmod
24	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 show	ccomp
25	before	before	ADV	_	24 cost	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	present	some shops	a price	a sale		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent price=Theme before sale=Destination
2	look	present	the discount			big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	show	present	tracking websites				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cost	infinitive	something			before property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value

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:7.

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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