"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 8

Prices rise over the years, which is called inflation, so a 10p bag of sweets now costs £1, but people's pay was lower back then too.

Who acts: Prices, p bag, pay, people · What happens: rise, call, cost, be, pay · To what, where: years · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world 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 (Prices, p bag, pay, people), 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	Prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rise	nsubj
2	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 years	det
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rise	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 called	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 called	aux:pass
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 years	acl:relcl
10	inflation	inflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 costs	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	20 costs	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bag	det
14	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 p	nummod
15	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bag	compound
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 costs	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 sweets	case
18	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bag	nmod
19	now	now	ADV	_	20 costs	advmod
20	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rise	conj
21	£	£	SYM	_	20 costs	obj
22	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 £	nummod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lower	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 lower	cc
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pay	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 people	case
27	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lower	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lower	cop
29	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 costs	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 lower	advmod
31	then	then	ADV	_	32 too	advmod
32	too	too	ADV	_	29 lower	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	Prices		year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present · passive		the years			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	cost	present	a p bag of sweets		now		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value
4	is	past	people's pay			low property	tree rules
5	pay		people				nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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:world:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:8.

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. 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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