--- title: Inflation means prices in general going up over time, so the same po… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics description: Inflation means prices in general going up over time, so the same pound buys a little less each year. Who acts: Inflation, prices, same pound. A sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/) / 0 # Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 0 Inflation means prices in general going up over time, so the same pound buys a little less each year. **Who acts:** Inflation, prices, same pound · **What happens:** mean, go up, buy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» 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 (Inflation, prices, same pound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:034-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar.lesson:0 # text = Inflation means prices in general going up over time, so the same pound buys a little less each year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 034-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar.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, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nmod _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 7 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod 18 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Inflation | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go up** | gerund | prices in general | | | | time | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **buy** | present | the same pound | | | | year | less *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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:034-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: [Adverts and how they work on you, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/16/) - next →: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/)