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title: Hyperinflation is extremely fast price rises: if prices doubled ever… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics
description: Hyperinflation is extremely fast price rises: if prices doubled every month, a £1 loaf would be £2, £4, £8 and then £16 after 4 months. Who acts: Hyperinflation, prices. A sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 14

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Hyperinflation is extremely fast price rises: if prices doubled every month, a £1 loaf would be £2, £4, £8 and then £16 after 4 months.

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**Who acts:** Hyperinflation, prices · **What happens:** be, double · **To what, where:** price rises, £ 2

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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 (Hyperinflation, prices), 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:14
# text = Hyperinflation is extremely fast price rises: if prices doubled every month, a £1 loaf would be £2, £4, £8 and then £16 after 4 months.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Hyperinflation	hyperinflation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
4	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rises	rise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	doubled	double	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	compound	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	21	compound	_	_
21	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	conj	_	_
24	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
26	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	compound	_	_
27	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	conj	_	_
31	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hyperinflation | price rises and a £ loaf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **double** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | prices |  |  |  | month |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | would |  | £ 2 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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