Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 15

A price of £0.99 is 99p, only 1p less than £1; shops use prices ending in 9 because they feel cheaper.

Who acts: price, shops, prices · What happens: be, use, end, feel · To what, where: 99 p, prices, 9

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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 (price, shops, prices), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 £	case
4	£	£	SYM	_	2 price	nmod
5	0.99	0.99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 p	cop
7	99	99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 p	nummod
8	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 p	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 p	advmod
11	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 p	nummod
12	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p	appos
13	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	15 £	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 less	fixed
15	£	£	SYM	_	12 p	nmod
16	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
18	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	nsubj
19	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 p	parataxis
20	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obj
21	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 prices	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 9	case
23	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 ending	obl
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 feel	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 feel	nsubj
26	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 use	advcl
27	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 feel	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 p	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	is a	present	a price	99 p			tree rules
2	use	present	shops	prices			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient
3	end	gerund	prices not said here		9		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	feel	present	shops = shop			cheap property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:002-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents.lesson:15.

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 ×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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