Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 13

Some say tariffs protect home factories and bring jobs back; others say the cost is often passed on to shoppers as higher prices.

Who acts: Some, tariffs, others · What happens: say, protect, bring back, pass on · To what, where: home factories, jobs, cost, shoppers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Some, tariffs, others), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tariffs	tariff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 protect	nsubj
4	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 factories	compound
6	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 protect	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bring	cc
8	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 protect	conj
9	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bring	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 bring	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cost	det
15	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passed	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 passed	aux:pass
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 passed	advmod
18	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 say	ccomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 passed	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 shoppers	case
21	shoppers	shopper	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passed	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 prices	case
23	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 prices	amod
24	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	protect	present	tariffs	home factories			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=Beneficiary
3	bring back	present	tariffs not said here	jobs			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent job=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pass on	present · passive		the cost	shoppers	as higher prices; often property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to shopper=Destination

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:13.

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, R8-pos-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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