--- title: It was reported that prices rose very fast in many countries in 2022… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that prices rose very fast in many countries in 2022; economists disagree about the causes, and several things probably happened at once. Who acts: prices, economists, several things. 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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 (prices, economists, several things), 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:11 # text = It was reported that prices rose very fast in many countries in 2022; economists disagree about the causes, and several things probably happened at once. # 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 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 economists economist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 probably probably ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 once once ADV RB _ 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | | food | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **rise** | past | prices | | | many countries | | in 2022; fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in country=Location | | 3 | **disagree** | present | economists | | | | | about the causes | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about cause=Topic | | 4 | **happen** | past | several things | | | | | probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | 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:11`. **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. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/10/) - next →: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/)