The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 16

The cost of living is how much money people need for basic things; when food prices rise, a £70 shop can become £80, which is £40 more over four weeks.

Who acts: cost, people, food prices, £ shop · What happens: be, need, rise, become, cost · To what, where: much money, living

This is a sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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 (cost, people, food prices, £ shop), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cost	det
2	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 money	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 living	case
4	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cost	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 money	cop
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 money	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 things	case
12	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 become	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 rise	advmod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prices	compound
17	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rise	nsubj
18	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 become	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rise	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shop	det
21	£	£	SYM	_	23 shop	compound
22	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 £	nummod
23	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 become	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 become	aux
25	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 money	parataxis
26	£	£	SYM	_	25 become	xcomp
27	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 £	nummod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 £	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 £	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 £	cop
31	£	£	SYM	_	26 £	conj
32	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 £	nummod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 £	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 weeks	case
35	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 weeks	nummod
36	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 more	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 money	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cost of living	much money		tree rules
2	need	present	people	much money not said here	for basic things	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
3	rise	present	food prices			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	become	can	a £ shop			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	cost			living		nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:16.

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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