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title: When food prices go up, the same basket costs more, so a running tot… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: When food prices go up, the same basket costs more, so a running total in your head or on a phone stops nasty surprises at the till. Who acts: food prices, same basket, running total. A sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its
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# The weekly shop and a family budget, sentence 4

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When food prices go up, the same basket costs more, so a running total in your head or on a phone stops nasty surprises at the till.

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**Who acts:** food prices, same basket, running total · **What happens:** go up, cost, run, stop · **To what, where:** more, nasty surprises, till

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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 (food prices, same basket, running total), 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:4
# text = When food prices go up, the same basket costs more, so a running total in your head or on a phone stops nasty surprises at the till.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **go up** | present | food prices |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **cost** | present | the same basket | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 3 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | present | a running total in your head or a phone | nasty surprises |  | the till |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality surprise=Eventuality |

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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:022-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget.lesson:4`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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