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title: The economic cycle is the ups and downs of the economy: a boom is go… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: The economic cycle is the ups and downs of the economy: a boom is good times and a recession is bad times; unemployment falling from 6 in 100 to 4 in 100 is a sign of better times. Who acts: economic cycle, boom, recession, unemployment. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 12

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The economic cycle is the ups and downs of the economy: a boom is good times and a recession is bad times; unemployment falling from 6 in 100 to 4 in 100 is a sign of better times.

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**Who acts:** economic cycle, boom, recession, unemployment · **What happens:** be, fall · **To what, where:** ups, good times, bad times, 6, sign

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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 (economic cycle, boom, recession, unemployment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:12
# text = The economic cycle is the ups and downs of the economy: a boom is good times and a recession is bad times; unemployment falling from 6 in 100 to 4 in 100 is a sign of better times.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	parataxis	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	downs	down	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	recession	recession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
26	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37: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 | the economic cycle | the ups and downs |  |  |  | of the economy | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a boom | good times and bad times |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a recession | bad times |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund | unemployment *not said here* |  |  | 6 in 100 to 4 in 100 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from 6=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is a** | present | unemployment | a sign |  |  | time |  | 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:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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