Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 1

Picture Nan saying, "When I was your age, a chocolate bar was 5p!" and Kai holding one that costs 80p: that is 80p ÷ 5p = 16 times more, but wages went up over those years too, so people can still buy chocolate.

Who acts: Picture Nan, chocolate bar, age, that, wages, people · What happens: say, be, hold, cost, go up, buy · To what, where: age, 5, one, 80 p, 80, chocolate · 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 (Picture Nan, chocolate bar, age, that), 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	Picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Nan	compound
2	Nan	nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saying	nsubj
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
6	When	when	SCONJ	_	10 age	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 age	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 age	cop
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 age	nmod:poss
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 5	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bar	det
13	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bar	compound
14	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 5	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 5	cop
16	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 saying	parataxis
17	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 5	nmod:unmarked
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 p	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 p	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Kai	cc
21	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 5	conj
22	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 age	acl
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 holding	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 costs	nsubj
25	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
26	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 p	nummod
27	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 costs	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 80	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 80	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 80	cop
31	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 saying	parataxis
32	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ÷	compound
33	÷	÷	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 p	compound
34	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 ÷	flat
35	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 =	nsubj
36	=	=	SYM	_	31 80	nmod
37	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 times	nummod
38	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 more	obl:unmarked
39	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 =	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 went	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 went	cc
42	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 went	nsubj
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 80	conj
44	up	up	ADV	_	43 went	advmod
45	over	over	ADP	_	47 years	case
46	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 years	det
47	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 went	obl
48	too	too	ADV	_	43 went	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 buy	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	54 buy	advmod
51	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 buy	nsubj
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 buy	aux
53	still	still	ADV	_	54 buy	advmod
54	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	parataxis
55	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 buy	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	gerund	Picture Nan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past	Picture Nan = nan	your age			tree rules
3	is a in a quote	past	a chocolate bar	5 and Kai		p nmod:unmarked	tree rules
4	hold	gerund	your age not said here	one			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	cost	present		80 p			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme p=Value
6	is a	present	that	80			tree rules
7	go up	past	wages		year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	buy	can	people	chocolate	still		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Theme

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:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.

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