--- title: A knock-on effect is when one change causes others: if lorry fuel go… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics description: A knock-on effect is when one change causes others: if lorry fuel goes up 20p a litre, a 100-litre trip costs 100 × 20p = £20 more, so food in the shops costs more. Who acts: one change, lorry fuel, litre trip, food. 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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 (one change, lorry fuel, litre trip, food), 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:10 # text = A knock-on effect is when one change causes others: if lorry fuel goes up 20p a litre, a 100-litre trip costs 100 × 20p = £20 more, so food in the shops costs more. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 11 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 up up ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 litre litre NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 litre litre NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 29 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 30 × × SYM SYM Number=Sing 31 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nmod 33 = = PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 £ £ SYM $ _ 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 36 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 44 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | | | | a knock effect | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | present | one change | others | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=Patient | | 3 | **go up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | lorry fuel | 20 p a litre | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **cost** | present | a litre trip | 100 p | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme p=Value | | 5 | **cost** | present | food in the shops | more | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | 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:10`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/9/) - next →: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/)