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title: Energy means electricity and gas; when its price goes up, the same u… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Energy means electricity and gas; when its price goes up, the same use costs more, so a bill can go from £80 to £100, which is £20 more. Who acts: Energy, price, same use, bill. A sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money course of Mova's primary 
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# Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 6

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Energy means electricity and gas; when its price goes up, the same use costs more, so a bill can go from £80 to £100, which is £20 more.

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**Who acts:** Energy, price, same use, bill · **What happens:** mean, go up, cost, go, be · **To what, where:** electricity, more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» 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 (Energy, price, same use, bill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:6
# text = Energy means electricity and gas; when its price goes up, the same use costs more, so a bill can go from £80 to £100, which is £20 more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod
15	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound
16	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	obl	_	_
26	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	conj	_	_
29	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	£	£	SYM	$	_	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **mean** | present | Energy | electricity and gas |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Topic |
| 2 | **go up** | present | gas's price | more |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient more=Extent |
| 3 | **cost** |  | the same use |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | can | a bill |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from £=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |

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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:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:6`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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