--- title: "Dynamic pricing" means raising prices when demand is high, that is,… — Soft words for hard things: business and adverti… · tree and pragmatics description: "Dynamic pricing" means raising prices when demand is high, that is, when lots of people want to buy. Who acts: Dynamic pricing, demand, lots. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/18/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: business a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/) / 18 # Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 18 "Dynamic pricing" means raising prices when demand is high, that is, when lots of people want to buy. **Who acts:** Dynamic pricing, demand, lots · **What happens:** mean, raise, be, want, buy · **To what, where:** prices This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms 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 (Dynamic pricing, demand, lots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:18 # text = "Dynamic pricing" means raising prices when demand is high, that is, when lots of people want to buy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Dynamic dynamic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pricing pricing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 raising raise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 demand demand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 discourse _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 fixed _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 17 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Dynamic pricing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **raise** *not said to happen* | gerund | Dynamic pricing *not said here* | prices | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | demand | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **want** | present | lots of people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lots of people *not said here* | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: 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. **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:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:18`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: business a…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/17/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: business a…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/)