--- title: Central banks raise interest rates to cool spending and slow inflati… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics description: Central banks raise interest rates to cool spending and slow inflation, but loans cost more: a mortgage can go from £600 to £700 a month, £100 more. Who acts: Central banks, loans, mortgage. 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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 (Central banks, loans, mortgage), 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:13 # text = Central banks raise interest rates to cool spending and slow inflation, but loans cost more: a mortgage can go from £600 to £700 a month, £100 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 raise raise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rates rate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 loans loan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 17 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mortgage mortgage NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 £ £ SYM $ _ 21 obl _ _ 24 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 £ £ SYM $ _ 21 obl _ _ 27 700 700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 £ £ SYM $ _ 21 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 32 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 33 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 34 . . 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 | **raise** | present | Central banks | interest rates | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=Theme | | 2 | **cool** | to-infinitive | Central banks *not said here* | spending | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spending=Patient | | 3 | **slow** | infinitive | Central banks *not said here* | inflation | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent inflation=Patient | | 4 | **cost** | present | loans | more | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | | 5 | **go** | can | a mortgage | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from £=Initial\_Location to £=Destination | 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:13`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/)