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title: If your pocket money stays £5 while sweets go from 50p to 55p, you g… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics
description: If your pocket money stays £5 while sweets go from 50p to 55p, you get 9 sweets instead of 10; grown-ups feel the same when pay goes up £2 for every £100 but prices go up £5 for every £100. Who acts: pocket money, sweets, you, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate
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# Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 3

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If your pocket money stays £5 while sweets go from 50p to 55p, you get 9 sweets instead of 10; grown-ups feel the same when pay goes up £2 for every £100 but prices go up £5 for every £100.

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**Who acts:** pocket money, sweets, you, grown ups, pay, prices · **What happens:** stay, go, get, grow, feel, go up · **To what, where:** 50 p, 9 sweets, same, 2, 5

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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 (pocket money, sweets, you, grown ups), 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:3
# text = If your pocket money stays £5 while sweets go from 50p to 55p, you get 9 sweets instead of 10; grown-ups feel the same when pay goes up £2 for every £100 but prices go up £5 for every £100.
# 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
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	obj	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	£	£	SYM	$	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	obj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	£	£	SYM	$	_	37	nmod	_	_
41	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
45	up	up	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	£	£	SYM	$	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	obl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	det	_	_
50	£	£	SYM	$	_	44	obl	_	_
51	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	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 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your pocket money |  |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme £=Location |
| 2 | **go** | present | sweets |  |  | 50 p |  | to 55 p | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from p=Initial\_Location to p=Destination |
| 3 | **get** | present | you | 9 sweets |  |  |  | instead 10 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | present | grown ups | the same |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme |
| 6 | **go up** | present | pay | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient 2=Extent |
| 7 | **go up** | present | prices | 5 |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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**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. **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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