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title: It was reported that rents and house prices have risen faster than p… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that rents and house prices have risen faster than pay in places like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada; some want many more homes built, others want green spaces protected. Who acts: rents, some, others. A sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more
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# Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 18

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It was reported that rents and house prices have risen faster than pay in places like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada; some want many more homes built, others want green spaces protected.

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**Who acts:** rents, some, others · **What happens:** report, rise, want, build, protect · **To what, where:** cost, many more homes, green spaces

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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 (rents, some, others), 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:18
# text = It was reported that rents and house prices have risen faster than pay in places like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada; some want many more homes built, others want green spaces protected.
# 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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	rents	rent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
27	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **report** | past · passive |  | cost |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **rise** | present · perfect | rents and house prices |  |  |  |  | than pay in places like the UK and Ireland and Australia and Canada; fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **want** | present | some | many more homes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | many more homes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **want** | present | others | green spaces |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme |
| 6 | **protect** | participle |  | green spaces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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.

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