--- title: The cost of living is what it costs to pay for a home, food, energy… — When money is tight · tree and pragmatics description: The cost of living is what it costs to pay for a home, food, energy and travel; a crisis is when these rise faster than pay. Who acts: cost, crisis. 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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 (cost, crisis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:12 # text = The cost of living is what it costs to pay for a home, food, energy and travel; a crisis is when these rise faster than pay. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 009-when-money-is-tight.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 travel travel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 crisis crisis NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 26 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **is a** | present | the cost of living | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cost** | present | cost | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | cost *not said here* | | | | | for a home and food and energy and travel | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a crisis | | | | | than pay; fast, rise *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **cost** | | | living | | | | | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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:adult-life:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When money is tight, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/11/) - next →: [When money is tight, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/)