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title: Real wages are pay compared with prices: if £100 of pay becomes £102… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics
description: Real wages are pay compared with prices: if £100 of pay becomes £102 but £100 of shopping becomes £105, a worker is £3 short. Who acts: worker. A sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 17

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Real wages are pay compared with prices: if £100 of pay becomes £102 but £100 of shopping becomes £105, a worker is £3 short.

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**Who acts:** worker · **What happens:** compare, become, be · **To what, where:** Real wages

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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 (worker), 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:17
# text = Real wages are pay compared with prices: if £100 of pay becomes £102 but £100 of shopping becomes £105, a worker is £3 short.
# 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 ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	nsubj	_	_
11	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	obj	_	_
16	102	102	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	nsubj	_	_
19	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
24	105	105	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
31	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **compare** | present · passive |  | Real wages |  |  |  | with prices | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with price=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **become** *a condition, not said to happen* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient £=Result |
| 3 | **become** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | a worker |  |  |  |  | short *property* | 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:17`.

**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 ×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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