Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 14

The minimum wage is the lowest pay per hour the law allows; raising it gives workers more but raises costs for businesses.

Who acts: minimum wage, law, raising · What happens: be, allow, raise, give · To what, where: lowest pay, law, more, workers, costs

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 (minimum wage, law, raising), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wage	det
2	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wage	amod
3	wage	wage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pay	det
6	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 pay	amod
7	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	per	per	ADP	_	9 hour	case
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 law	det
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 allows	nsubj
12	allows	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 raising	punct
14	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 gives	csubj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 raising	obj
16	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	parataxis
17	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gives	iobj
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 gives	obj
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 raises	cc
20	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gives	conj
21	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 raises	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 businesses	case
23	businesses	business	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 costs	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the minimum wage	the lowest pay		hour		tree rules
2	allow	present	the law	the lowest pay not said here				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Beneficiary
3	raise	gerund		law				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	give	present	raising	more	workers			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient more=Theme
5	raise	present	raising not said here	costs			for businesses	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=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: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): R5-strong ×2, 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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