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title: News reports said more families, including some with jobs, used food… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics
description: News reports said more families, including some with jobs, used food banks during the cost of living crisis; using a food bank is nothing to be ashamed of. Who acts: News reports, more families, cost, using. A sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics
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# Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 17

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News reports said more families, including some with jobs, used food banks during the cost of living crisis; using a food bank is nothing to be ashamed of.

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**Who acts:** News reports, more families, cost, using · **What happens:** say, use, live, be, asham · **To what, where:** food banks, crisis, food bank, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (News reports, more families, cost, using), 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:17
# text = News reports said more families, including some with jobs, used food banks during the cost of living crisis; using a food bank is nothing to be ashamed of.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	including	include	ADP	VBG	_	8	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:cop
30	ashamed	asham	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:acl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | News reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | past | more families include some | food banks |  |  | during the cost |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | the cost *not said here* | crisis |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme crisis=Location |
| 4 | **use** | gerund |  | a food bank |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | using | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **asham** | to-infinitive · passive | News reports *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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