Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 10
It was reported that energy prices shot up in 2022, especially in Europe; some governments helped with bills, and in Britain a price cap limits how much energy companies can charge.
Who acts: governments, price cap, much energy companies · What happens: report, shoot up, help, limit, charge · To what, where: money, energy prices, 2022, Britain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics 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 (governments, price cap, much energy companies), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 shot | mark |
| 5 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prices | compound |
| 6 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 shot | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2022 | case |
| 10 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 shot | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Europe | punct |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 14 Europe | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Europe | case |
| 14 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shot | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 helped | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 governments | det |
| 17 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 helped | nsubj |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 bills | case |
| 20 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 helped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 limits | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 limits | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Britain | case |
| 24 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 limits | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cap | det |
| 26 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cap | compound |
| 27 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 limits | nsubj |
| 28 | limits | limit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | conj |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 companies | amod |
| 31 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 companies | compound |
| 32 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 charge | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 charge | aux |
| 34 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 limits | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | money | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | shoot up | participle · passive | energy prices | 2022 | in Europe | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | help | past | some governments | with bills | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | limit | present | a price cap | Britain | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer clause=Goal | ||||
| 5 | charge | can | much energy companies | vn run-51.3.2 «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:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:10.
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, 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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