--- title: Higher interest rates calm prices but raise house payments; tariffs… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: Higher interest rates calm prices but raise house payments; tariffs may protect some factory jobs but can raise prices in shops; a higher minimum wage helps workers but costs businesses more. Who acts: Higher interest rates, tariffs, higher minimum wage. 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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 (Higher interest rates, tariffs, higher minimum wage), 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:4 # text = Higher interest rates calm prices but raise house payments; tariffs may protect some factory jobs but can raise prices in shops; a higher minimum wage helps workers but costs businesses more. # 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): no change 1 Higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 2 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 rates rate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 calm calm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 raise raise NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 payments payment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 tariffs tariff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 15 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 26 minimum minimum ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 wage wage NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **calm** | present | Higher interest rates | prices but raise house payments | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus price=Experiencer | | 2 | **protect** | may | tariffs | some factory jobs | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Beneficiary | | 3 | **raise** | can | tariffs *not said here* | prices | | shops | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent price=Theme in shop=Destination | | 4 | **help** | present | a higher minimum wage | workers | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Beneficiary | | 5 | **cost** | present | a higher minimum wage *not said here* | businesses | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme business=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:4`. **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): no change. **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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