Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 12
Some people blame energy prices, some blame too much money being created, and some blame big companies raising prices; each view has supporters.
Who acts: people, some, big companies, view · What happens: blame, create, raise, have · To what, where: energy prices, much money, big companies, prices, supporters
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 (people, some, big companies, view), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blame | nsubj |
| 3 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prices | compound |
| 5 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blame | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blame | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 blame | nsubj |
| 8 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blame | conj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 money | amod |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blame | obj |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 created | aux:pass |
| 13 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 money | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blame | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blame | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 blame | nsubj |
| 17 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blame | conj |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 companies | amod |
| 19 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blame | obj |
| 20 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 companies | acl |
| 21 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 raising | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 has | punct |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 view | det |
| 24 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blame | parataxis |
| 26 | supporters | supporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 has | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present | some people | energy prices | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blame | present | some | much money | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | create | gerund · passive | much money not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | blame | present | some | big companies | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | ||||
| 5 | raise | gerund | big companies not said here | prices | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | present | each view | supporters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supporter=Patient |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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