--- title: Nobody stole your 15p: when the prices of most things rise over time… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody stole your 15p: when the prices of most things rise over time, it is called inflation, and the same coin simply buys less. Who acts: Nobody, prices, same coin. 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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 (Nobody, prices, same coin), 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:1 # text = Nobody stole your 15p: when the prices of most things rise over time, it is called inflation, and the same coin simply buys less. # 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 ×2 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 simply simply ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | past | Nobody | your 15 p | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location p=Theme | | 2 | **rise** | present | the prices of most things | | | | time | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | p | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **buy** | present | the same coin | less | | | | simply *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme | 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:1`. **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 ×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. 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