Taking without paying: the consequences, sentence 9
Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices, so honest customers pay too.
Who acts: Shops, ban, honest customers · What happens: cover, lose, steal, raise, pay · To what, where: money, prices
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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, ban, honest customers), 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 | Shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cover | nsubj |
| 2 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cover | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lose | nsubj |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 money | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 stealing | mark |
| 8 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lose | advcl |
| 9 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 8 stealing | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 raising | mark |
| 11 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stealing | advcl |
| 12 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 raising | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pay | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 pay | advmod |
| 15 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 customers | amod |
| 16 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pay | nsubj |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cover | parataxis |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 pay | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cover | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | Shops | the money | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | ban | the money not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | steal | gerund | ban not said here | partly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | raise | gerund | ban not said here | prices | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pay | present | honest customers | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:015-taking-without-paying-the-consequences.lesson:9.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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