The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss, sentence 16

If prizes cost more than the money taken, a stall is loss-making: 20 players at 50p bring £10, and prizes of £15 mean a loss of £5.

Who acts: prizes, stall, 20 players · What happens: cost, take, be, bring, mean · To what, where: more, money, loss

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 (prizes, stall, 20 players), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 cost	mark
2	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cost	nsubj
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 making	advcl
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cost	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 money	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 more	obl
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 money	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cost	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stall	det
11	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 making	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 making	cop
13	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 making	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 loss	punct
15	making	making	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 players	punct
17	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 players	nummod
18	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bring	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 p	case
20	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 p	nummod
21	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 players	nmod
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 making	parataxis
23	£	£	SYM	_	22 bring	obj
24	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 £	nummod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mean	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mean	cc
27	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 mean	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 £	case
29	£	£	SYM	_	27 prizes	nmod
30	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 £	nummod
31	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bring	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 loss	det
33	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mean	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 £	case
35	£	£	SYM	_	33 loss	nmod
36	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 £	nummod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 making	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cost a condition, not said to happen	present	prizes	more		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
2	take	participle		the money not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	a stall		making property	tree rules
4	bring	infinitive	20 players at 50 p			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme
5	mean	present	prizes	a loss		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Topic

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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