Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 11
Some shops raise a price for a short time so that a later "sale" looks bigger; compare with the usual price and with other shops.
Who acts: shops, later sale · What happens: raise, look, compare · To what, where: price
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» 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 (shops, later sale), 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 shops | det |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raise | nsubj |
| 3 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 price | det |
| 5 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raise | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raise | obl |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 looks | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sale | det |
| 13 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 sale | amod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sale | punct |
| 15 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looks | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sale | punct |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 raise | advcl |
| 18 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 looks | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 compare | punct |
| 20 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 raise | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 price | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 price | det |
| 23 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 price | amod |
| 24 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 compare | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shops | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 shops | case |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shops | amod |
| 28 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 price | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | some shops | a price | time | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | present | a later sale | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | compare | infinitive | with the usual price and other shops | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with price=Co-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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:11.
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): 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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