The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 4

When food prices go up, the same basket costs more, so a running total in your head or on a phone stops nasty surprises at the till.

Who acts: food prices, same basket, running total · What happens: go up, cost, run, stop · To what, where: more, nasty surprises, till

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 (food prices, same basket, running total), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prices	compound
3	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 costs	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 costs	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 basket	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 basket	amod
9	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 costs	nsubj
10	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 costs	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stops	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	24 stops	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 total	det
15	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 total	amod
16	total	total	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stops	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 total	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 phone	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 phone	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 phone	det
23	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 head	conj
24	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 costs	conj
25	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 surprises	amod
26	surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stops	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 till	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 till	det
29	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stops	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 costs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go up	present	food prices			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cost	present	the same basket	more		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
3	run	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	present	a running total in your head or a phone	nasty surprises	the till	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality surprise=Eventuality

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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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