--- title: The cost of living is how much money people need for basic things; w… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics description: The cost of living is how much money people need for basic things; when food prices rise, a £70 shop can become £80, which is £40 more over four weeks. Who acts: cost, people, food prices, £ shop. 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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, people, food prices, £ shop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:16 # text = The cost of living is how much money people need for basic things; when food prices rise, a £70 shop can become £80, which is £40 more over four weeks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 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 8 cop _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 basic basic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 £ £ SYM $ _ 23 compound _ _ 22 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 23 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 26 £ £ SYM $ _ 25 xcomp _ _ 27 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 £ £ SYM $ _ 26 conj _ _ 32 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 33 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 obj _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the cost of living | much money | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | people | much money *not said here* | | | | for basic things | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | present | food prices | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **become** | can | a £ shop | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 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:money:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:16`. **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: [The weekly shop and a family budget, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/15/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/)