--- title: A sign that says "sale" does not prove the price has fallen; compare… — Unit prices and sales that are not really sales · tree and pragmatics description: A sign that says "sale" does not prove the price has fallen; compare the real prices. Who acts: sign, price. A sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Unit prices and sales that are not rea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales/) / 6 # Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 6 A sign that says "sale" does not prove the price has fallen; compare the real prices. **Who acts:** sign, price · **What happens:** say, not prove, fall, compare · **To what, where:** sale, real prices · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money 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 (sign, price), 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:6 # text = A sign that says "sale" does not prove the price has fallen; compare the real prices. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 compare compare VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a sign | sale | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sale=Topic | | 2 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | a sign | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | present · perfect | the price | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **compare** | infinitive | | the real prices | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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](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:6`. **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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