Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 14

Sixpence was an old British coin; two sixpences made a shilling, and prices were much smaller then.

Who acts: Sixpence, two sixpences, prices · What happens: be, make · To what, where: old British coin, shilling

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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 (Sixpence, two sixpences, prices), 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	Sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 coin	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coin	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coin	amod
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coin	amod
6	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sixpences	nummod
9	sixpences	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 coin	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shilling	det
12	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smaller	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 smaller	cc
15	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 smaller	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 smaller	cop
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 smaller	advmod
18	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 made	conj
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 smaller	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 coin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sixpence	a old British coin			tree rules
2	make	past	two sixpences	a shilling			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shilling=Product
3	is	past	prices		then	small 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:006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.lesson:14.

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. 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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