Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 9

Some say governments spent and printed too much money; others say world problems like the pandemic and war pushed up fuel and food costs.

Who acts: Some, governments, others, world problems · What happens: say, spend, print, push up · To what, where: much money, fuel · 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, governments, others, world problems), 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	12 say	conj
3	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	nsubj
4	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 printed	cc
6	printed	print	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	conj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 money	amod
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 printed	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 problems	compound
14	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pushed	nsubj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 pandemic	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pandemic	det
17	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 problems	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 war	cc
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pandemic	conj
20	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 pushed	compound:prt
22	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pushed	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 costs	cc
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 costs	compound
25	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fuel	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spend	past	governments		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	print	past	governments not said here	much money	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	others		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	push up	past	world problems like the pandemic and war	fuel and food costs	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=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:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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