--- title: Shrinkflation is when a product gets smaller but the price stays the… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: Shrinkflation is when a product gets smaller but the price stays the same; the unit price, such as the price per 100 grams, lets you compare. Who acts: Shrinkflation, price, unit price, you. 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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 (Shrinkflation, price, unit price, you), 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:16 # text = Shrinkflation is when a product gets smaller but the price stays the same; the unit price, such as the price per 100 grams, lets you compare. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Shrinkflation shrinkflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 product product NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 unit unit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 22 case _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 23 per per ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 compare compare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Shrinkflation | | | | | get, small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | present | the price | | | | | same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | present | the unit price such the price per 100 grams | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **compare** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:16`. **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): R1-cc-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. 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