Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 9
Purchasing power is what your money can buy: £5 buys 10 sweets at 50p but only 9 at 55p, with 5p left.
Who acts: money, £ 5, 5 p · What happens: purchase, buy, leave · To what, where: power, 10 sweets, 50 p
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 (money, £ 5, 5 p), 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 | Purchasing | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 is | csubj |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Purchasing | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 buy | obj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 money | nmod:poss |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buy | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 buy | aux |
| 8 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 11 5 | compound |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 buys | nsubj |
| 12 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | parataxis |
| 13 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 sweets | nummod |
| 14 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 buys | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 p | case |
| 16 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 p | nummod |
| 17 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buys | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 p | cc |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 9 | advmod |
| 20 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 p | nummod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 55 | case |
| 22 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 p | nummod |
| 23 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 p | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 left | punct |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 28 left | mark |
| 26 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 p | nummod |
| 27 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | nsubj |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 buys | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | gerund | power | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy | can | your money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | buy | present | £ 5 | 10 sweets | 50 p but 9 55 p | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme at p=Asset | |||
| 4 | leave | past | 5 p | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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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