Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 6

When a factory closes, local shops suffer too: 500 workers on £500 a week means 500 × £500 = £250,000 less to spend each week.

Who acts: factory, local shops, 500 workers · What happens: close, suffer, mean, spend

This is a sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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 (factory, local shops, 500 workers), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 closes	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 factory	det
3	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closes	nsubj
4	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 suffer	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 closes	punct
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shops	amod
7	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 suffer	nsubj
8	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 means	parataxis
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 suffer	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
11	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 workers	nummod
12	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 means	nsubj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 £	case
14	£	£	SYM	_	12 workers	nmod
15	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 £	nummod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 £	nmod:unmarked
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 ×	nummod
20	×	×	SYM	Number=Sing	23 =	nsubj
21	£	£	SYM	_	20 ×	nmod
22	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 £	nummod
23	=	=	SYM	_	18 means	ccomp
24	£	£	SYM	_	26 less	nsubj
25	250,000	250,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 £	flat
26	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 =	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 spend	mark
28	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 less	advcl
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 week	det
30	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spend	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 suffer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	close	present	a factory		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	suffer	present	local shops		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	mean	present	500 workers		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	spend	to-infinitive	500 workers not said here	week	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:6.

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, R7-rel-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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