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title: Solar power became about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020: wh… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Solar power became about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020: what cost ten pounds in 2010 cost about one pound in 2020. Who acts: Solar power. A sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 8

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Solar power became about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020: what cost ten pounds in 2010 cost about one pound in 2020.

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**Who acts:** Solar power · **What happens:** become, cost · **To what, where:** ten pounds, 2010, one pound, 2020

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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 (Solar power), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:8
# text = Solar power became about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020: what cost ten pounds in 2010 cost about one pound in 2020.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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
1	Solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	csubj	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
19	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Solar power |  |  |  | time | cheap *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cost** | past |  | ten pounds |  | 2010 |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value |
| 3 | **cost** | past | Solar power *not said here* | one pound |  | 2020 |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value |

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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.

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**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. **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/).

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