--- title: Last year your sweets cost 50p; now they cost 65p. — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: Last year your sweets cost 50p; now they cost 65p. Who acts: sweets. A sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Prices, money and jobs: why everything…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/) / 0 # Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 0 Last year your sweets cost 50p; now they cost 65p. **Who acts:** sweets · **What happens:** cost · **To what, where:** 50 p, 65 p This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics 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 (sweets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:0 # text = Last year your sweets cost 50p; now they cost 65p. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 65 65 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | past | your sweets | 50 p | | | year | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme p=Value | | 2 | **cost** | present | sweets *= sweet* | 65 p | | | now | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme p=Value | 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:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [UK elections and the prime minister, a…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/17-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported/22/) - next →: [Prices, money and jobs: why everything…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/)