Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 3
If your pocket money stays £5 while sweets go from 50p to 55p, you get 9 sweets instead of 10; grown-ups feel the same when pay goes up £2 for every £100 but prices go up £5 for every £100.
Who acts: pocket money, sweets, you, grown ups, pay, prices · What happens: stay, go, get, grow, feel, go up · To what, where: 50 p, 9 sweets, same, 2, 5
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 (pocket money, sweets, you, grown ups), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 stays | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 money | nmod:poss |
| 3 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 money | compound | ||
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stays | nsubj |
| 5 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 goes | advcl |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 stays | obj |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 9 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stays | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 p | case |
| 12 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 p | nummod |
| 13 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 p | case |
| 15 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 p | nummod |
| 16 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stays | conj |
| 20 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 sweets | nummod |
| 21 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 get | obj |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 24 10 | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 instead | fixed |
| 24 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 sweets | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 feel | punct |
| 26 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 ups | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 grown | punct |
| 28 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 feel | nsubj |
| 29 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stays | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 same | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feel | obj |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 goes | advmod |
| 33 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 goes | nsubj |
| 34 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 goes | compound:prt |
| 36 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 37 2 | advmod |
| 37 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 goes | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 £ | case |
| 39 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 £ | det |
| 40 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 37 2 | nmod |
| 41 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 £ | nummod |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 go | cc |
| 43 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 go | nsubj |
| 44 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 goes | conj |
| 45 | up | up | ADV | _ | 47 5 | advmod |
| 46 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 47 5 | advmod |
| 47 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 go | obl |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 £ | case |
| 49 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 50 £ | det |
| 50 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 44 go | obl |
| 51 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 50 £ | nummod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay a condition, not said to happen | present | your pocket money | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme £=Location | |||||
| 2 | go | present | sweets | 50 p | to 55 p | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from p=Initial_Location to p=Destination | |||
| 3 | get | present | you | 9 sweets | instead 10 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | feel | present | grown ups | the same | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go up | present | pay | 2 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient 2=Extent | ||||
| 7 | go up | present | prices | 5 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:3.
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. 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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