The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss, sentence 12
A start-up is a new business; many lose money at first, like costs of £20,000 and takings of £15,000, a loss of £5,000.
Who acts: start up, many · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: new business, money
This is a sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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 (start up, many), 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 | 4 up | det |
| 2 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 up | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 start | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 business | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 business | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 business | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 business | amod |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 lose | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lose | nsubj |
| 11 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 business | parataxis |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lose | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 first | case |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 lose | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 costs | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 costs | case |
| 17 | costs | cost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lose | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 £ | case |
| 19 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 17 costs | nmod |
| 20 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 £ | nummod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 takings | cc |
| 22 | takings | taking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 costs | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 £ | case |
| 24 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 22 takings | nmod |
| 25 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 £ | nummod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loss | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 loss | det |
| 28 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 costs | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 £ | case |
| 30 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 28 loss | nmod |
| 31 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 £ | nummod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 business | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a start up | a new business | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | many | money | like costs and takings and a loss | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/12/