--- title: Some people blame energy prices, some blame too much money being cre… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics description: Some people blame energy prices, some blame too much money being created, and some blame big companies raising prices; each view has supporters. Who acts: people, some, big companies, view. 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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 (people, some, big companies, view), 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:12 # text = Some people blame energy prices, some blame too much money being created, and some blame big companies raising prices; each view has supporters. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blame blame VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 8 blame blame VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 created create VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 17 blame blame VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ _ 21 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 supporters supporter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **blame** | present | some people | energy prices | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | | 2 | **blame** | present | some | much money | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 3 | **create** | gerund · passive | | much money *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **blame** | present | some | big companies | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | | 5 | **raise** | gerund | big companies *not said here* | prices | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | each view | supporters | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supporter=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:034-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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