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title: Watch for shrinkflation, when a bar shrinks from 200 g to 180 g at t… — Unit prices and sales that are not really sales · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch for shrinkflation, when a bar shrinks from 200 g to 180 g at the same £2, and remember that a picture on a box is an advert, while the ingredients list tells the truth. Who acts: you, bar, picture, ingredients list. A sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of 
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# Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 3

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Watch for shrinkflation, when a bar shrinks from 200 g to 180 g at the same £2, and remember that a picture on a box is an advert, while the ingredients list tells the truth.

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**Who acts:** you, bar, picture, ingredients list · **What happens:** watch, shrink, remember, be, tell · **To what, where:** advert, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money 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 (you, bar, picture, ingredients list), 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:3
# text = Watch for shrinkflation, when a bar shrinks from 200 g to 180 g at the same £2, and remember that a picture on a box is an advert, while the ingredients list tells the truth.
# 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	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shrinkflation	shrinkflation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	g	g	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	g	g	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	obl	_	_
19	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	ingredients	ingredient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	compound	_	_
36	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for shrinkflation | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for shrinkflation=Theme at £=Location |
| 2 | **shrink** | present | a bar |  |  |  |  | to 180 g; from 200 g | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from g=Stimulus |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a picture on a box | a advert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the ingredients list | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |

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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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**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:3`.

**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/).

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