--- title: Some shops raise a price before a sale so that the discount looks bi… — Unit prices and sales that are not really sales · tree and pragmatics description: Some shops raise a price before a sale so that the discount looks bigger; price-tracking websites show what something really cost before. Who acts: shops, discount, tracking websites, something. 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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 (shops, discount, tracking websites, something), 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:7 # text = Some shops raise a price before a sale so that the discount looks bigger; price-tracking websites show what something really cost before. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 raise raise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 discount discount NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 tracking tracking NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 websites website NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 obj _ _ 22 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 nsubj _ _ 23 really really ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 before before ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **raise** | present | some shops | a price | | a sale | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent price=Theme before sale=Destination | | 2 | **look** | present | the discount | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | present | tracking websites | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **cost** | infinitive | something | | | | | before *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | 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:7`. **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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