--- title: Corner shops often charge more than big supermarkets because they bu… — Unit prices and sales that are not really sales · tree and pragmatics description: Corner shops often charge more than big supermarkets because they buy smaller amounts and stay open late near you; you pay for convenience. Who acts: Corner shops, shops, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corner shops, shops, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:13 # text = Corner shops often charge more than big supermarkets because they buy smaller amounts and stay open late near you; you pay for convenience. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 charge charge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 supermarkets supermarket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 buy buy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 convenience convenience NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charge** | present | Corner shops | more | | | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location more=Theme | | 2 | **buy** | present | shops *= shop* | smaller amounts | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme | | 3 | **stay** | present | shops *= shop* *not said here* | | | | | near you; late, open *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location | | 4 | **pay** | present | you | | | | | for convenience | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for convenience=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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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