--- title: A recession is when a country's economy shrinks for a while; GDP is… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics description: A recession is when a country's economy shrinks for a while; GDP is the total value of everything a country makes, and shrinking 1% turns a £100 economy into £99. Who acts: recession, GDP, country, shrinking. 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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 (recession, GDP, country, shrinking), 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:13 # text = A recession is when a country's economy shrinks for a while; GDP is the total value of everything a country makes, and shrinking 1% turns a £100 economy into £99. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 recession recession NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 economy economy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 14 GDP GDP NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 nmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 csubj _ _ 27 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 £ £ SYM $ _ 32 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:ExtPos=ADP 32 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 economy economy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 £ £ SYM $ _ 29 obl _ _ 36 99 99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 23 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** | present | a recession | | | | while | shrink *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | GDP | the total value | | | | of everything | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | a country | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **shrink** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent %=Patient | | 5 | **turn** | present | shrinking | a 100 economy | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent economy=Theme into £=Trajectory | 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:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:13`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/12/) - next →: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/)