--- title: Identify the term which denotes a sustained rise in the general leve… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the term which denotes a sustained rise in the general level of prices over time. Exam question 1 of lesson 18 «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/) / [Prices, money and jobs: why everything…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more Identify the term which denotes a sustained rise in the general level of prices over time. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, term · **What happens:** identify, denote, sustain · **To what, where:** term, sustained rise This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:e1:1 # text = Identify the term which denotes a sustained rise in the general level of prices over time. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 denotes denote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sustained sustain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme | | 2 | **denote** | present | the term | a sustained rise | | | | in the general level of prices over time | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot rise=Theme in level=Attribute | | 3 | **sustain** | participle | | | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Shrinkflation ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:e1:o1:1 # text = Shrinkflation 1 Shrinkflation shrinkflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A mortgage ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:e1:o2:1 # text = A mortgage 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mortgage mortgage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A tariff ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:e1:o3:1 # text = A tariff 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tariff tariff NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Inflation ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:e1:o4:1 # text = Inflation 1 Inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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