--- title: It was reported that hyperinflation happened in Germany about 100 ye… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that hyperinflation happened in Germany about 100 years ago and in Zimbabwe more recently, making money nearly useless. Who acts: hyperinflation. A sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/) / 15 # Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 15 It was reported that hyperinflation happened in Germany about 100 years ago and in Zimbabwe more recently, making money nearly useless. **Who acts:** hyperinflation · **What happens:** report, happen, make · **To what, where:** Hyperinflation, Germany, money 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), 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:15 # text = It was reported that hyperinflation happened in Germany about 100 years ago and in Zimbabwe more recently, making money nearly useless. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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 hyperinflation hyperinflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 17 recently recently ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 20 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 . . 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 | | Hyperinflation | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **happen** | past | hyperinflation | | | Germany and Zimbabwe | | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in germany=Location | | 3 | **make** | gerund | hyperinflation *not said here* | money | | | | useless *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | 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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/14/) - next →: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/)