Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 18
It was reported that rents and house prices have risen faster than pay in places like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada; some want many more homes built, others want green spaces protected.
Who acts: rents, some, others · What happens: report, rise, want, build, protect · To what, where: cost, many more homes, green spaces
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 (rents, some, 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 | 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 | _ | 10 risen | mark |
| 5 | rents | rent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 risen | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 prices | cc |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prices | compound |
| 8 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rents | conj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 risen | aux |
| 10 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 risen | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 pay | case |
| 13 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 risen | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pay | nmod |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 UK | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 UK | det |
| 18 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 places | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ireland | punct |
| 20 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 UK | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Australia | punct |
| 22 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 UK | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Canada | cc |
| 24 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 UK | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 want | punct |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 want | nsubj |
| 27 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | parataxis |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 homes | amod |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 homes | amod |
| 30 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 want | obj |
| 31 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 homes | acl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 want | punct |
| 33 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 want | nsubj |
| 34 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | conj |
| 35 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 spaces | amod |
| 36 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 want | obj |
| 37 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 spaces | acl |
| 38 | . | . | 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 | cost | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | rise | present · perfect | rents and house prices | than pay in places like the UK and Ireland and Australia and Canada; fast property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want | present | some | many more homes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme | ||||
| 4 | build | participle | many more homes not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | want | present | others | green spaces | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme | ||||
| 6 | protect | participle | green spaces not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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): R2-punct-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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