Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 17

News reports said more families, including some with jobs, used food banks during the cost of living crisis; using a food bank is nothing to be ashamed of.

Who acts: News reports, more families, cost, using · What happens: say, use, live, be, asham · To what, where: food banks, crisis, food bank, nothing · 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 (News reports, more families, cost, using), 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	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reports	compound
2	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 families	amod
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 including	punct
7	including	include	ADP	_	8 some	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 families	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 jobs	case
10	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 some	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 banks	punct
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 banks	compound
14	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obj
15	during	during	ADP	_	17 cost	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cost	det
17	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 banks	nmod
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 living	mark
19	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cost	acl
20	crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 living	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
22	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 nothing	csubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bank	det
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bank	compound
25	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 using	obj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 nothing	cop
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	30 ashamed	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 ashamed	aux:pass
30	ashamed	asham	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 nothing	acl
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 ashamed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	News reports			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	past	more families include some	food banks	during the cost	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient
3	live	gerund	the cost not said here	crisis		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme crisis=Location
4	use	gerund		a food bank		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient
5	is a	present	using	nothing		tree rules
6	asham	to-infinitive · passive	News reports not said here			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:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:17.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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