--- title: Inflation is prices going up over time; the inflation rate is how mu… — Inflation explained with a chocolate bar · tree and pragmatics description: Inflation is prices going up over time; the inflation rate is how much they rise in a year, as a percentage. Who acts: Inflation, prices, inflation rate. 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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 (Inflation, prices, inflation rate), 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:5 # text = Inflation is prices going up over time; the inflation rate is how much they rise in a year, as a percentage. # 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): no change 1 Inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 percentage percentage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Inflation | prices | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go up** | gerund | prices *not said here* | | | | time | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | present | the inflation rate | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **rise** | present | prices *= price* | | | | year | as a percentage | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/4/) - next →: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/)