Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 15
It was reported that hyperinflation happened in Germany about 100 years ago and in Zimbabwe more recently, making money nearly useless.
Who acts: hyperinflation · What happens: report, happen, make · To what, where: Hyperinflation, Germany, money
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 (hyperinflation), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 happened | mark |
| 5 | hyperinflation | hyperinflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Germany | case |
| 8 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 100 | advmod |
| 10 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 happened | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Zimbabwe | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Zimbabwe | case |
| 15 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Germany | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 happened | advmod |
| 17 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 making | punct |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 happened | advcl |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 useless | advmod |
| 22 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 making | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | Hyperinflation | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | hyperinflation | Germany and Zimbabwe | ago property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in germany=Location | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | hyperinflation not said here | money | useless property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product |
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:15.
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, 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.
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