Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 17

Real wages are pay compared with prices: if £100 of pay becomes £102 but £100 of shopping becomes £105, a worker is £3 short.

Who acts: worker · What happens: compare, become, be · To what, where: Real wages

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 (worker), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wages	amod
2	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 compared	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 compared	aux:pass
4	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wages	appos
5	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 prices	case
7	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 compared	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 £	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 becomes	mark
10	£	£	SYM	_	14 becomes	nsubj
11	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 pay	case
13	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 £	nmod
14	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 compared	advcl
15	£	£	SYM	_	14 becomes	obj
16	102	102	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 becomes	cc
18	£	£	SYM	_	22 becomes	nsubj
19	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 £	nummod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 shopping	case
21	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 £	nmod
22	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 becomes	conj
23	£	£	SYM	_	22 becomes	xcomp
24	105	105	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 £	nummod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 £	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 worker	det
27	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 short	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 short	cop
29	£	£	SYM	_	31 short	obl:unmarked
30	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 £	nummod
31	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 compared	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 compared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	compare	present · passive		Real wages	with prices	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with price=Co-Patient
2	become a condition, not said to happen	present				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient £=Result
3	become	present				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	a worker		short property	tree rules

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:17.

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): 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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