Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout, sentence 10
Queues get longer when fewer tills are open, because each till serves one person at a time.
Who acts: Queues, fewer tills, till · What happens: get, be, serve · To what, where: one person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» 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 (Queues, fewer tills, till), 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 | Queues | queue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 get | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 open | mark |
| 5 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 tills | amod |
| 6 | tills | till | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 open | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | cop |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 serves | mark |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 till | det |
| 12 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 serves | nsubj |
| 13 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 person | nummod |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 serves | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 serves | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Queues | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | fewer tills | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | serve | present | each till | one person | time | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Attribute |
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:014-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout.lesson:10.
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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