Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 16
Shrinkflation is when a product gets smaller but the price stays the same; the unit price, such as the price per 100 grams, lets you compare.
Who acts: Shrinkflation, price, unit price, you · What happens: be, stay, let, compare · To what, where: you
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 (Shrinkflation, price, unit price, you), 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 | Shrinkflation | shrinkflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gets | cop |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 gets | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 product | det |
| 5 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 gets | xcomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stays | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 price | det |
| 10 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stays | nsubj |
| 11 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gets | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 same | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stays | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 price | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 price | det |
| 16 | unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 price | compound |
| 17 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lets | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 price | punct |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 22 price | case |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 price | det |
| 22 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 price | nmod |
| 23 | per | per | ADP | _ | 25 grams | case |
| 24 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 grams | nummod |
| 25 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 price | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lets | punct |
| 27 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gets | parataxis |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 lets | obj |
| 29 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 lets | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Shrinkflation | get, small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | the price | same property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | present | the unit price such the price per 100 grams | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | compare | infinitive | you not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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