Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 0
Inflation means prices in general going up over time, so the same pound buys a little less each year.
Who acts: Inflation, prices, same pound · What happens: mean, go up, buy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» 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 (Inflation, prices, same pound), 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 | Inflation | inflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 going | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 general | case |
| 5 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prices | nmod |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buys | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 buys | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pound | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pound | amod |
| 14 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buys | nsubj |
| 15 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 less | obl |
| 18 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 buys | advmod |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buys | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Inflation | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | prices in general | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | buy | present | the same pound | year | less property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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:034-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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