Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout, sentence 12
Many UK shops charge for carrier bags so people use fewer and make less plastic rubbish.
Who acts: Many UK shops, people · What happens: charge, use, make · To what, where: fewer, less plastic rubbish
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 (Many UK shops, people), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shops | amod |
| 2 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shops | compound |
| 3 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 charge | nsubj |
| 4 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bags | case |
| 6 | carrier | carrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bags | compound |
| 7 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 charge | obl |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 use | mark |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | nsubj |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 charge | advcl |
| 11 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 use | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 use | conj |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 rubbish | amod |
| 15 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rubbish | amod |
| 16 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charge | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | present | Many UK shops | for carrier bags | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present | people | fewer | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | people not said here | less plastic rubbish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rubbish=Product |
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:12.
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, R8-pos-agree ×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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