--- title: Inflation is when the prices of most things rise over time; the cost… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: Inflation is when the prices of most things rise over time; the cost of living is how much money you need for food, heating, rent and other everyday things. Who acts: Inflation, prices, cost, 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 (Inflation, prices, cost, 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:8 # text = Inflation is when the prices of most things rise over time; the cost of living is how much money you need for food, heating, rent and other everyday things. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Inflation inflation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 heating heating NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 rent rent NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Inflation | | | | | when *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **rise** | present | the prices of most things | | | | time | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | the cost of living | much money | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | you | much money *not said here* | | | | for food and heating and rent and other everyday things | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | | 5 | **cost** | | | living | | | | | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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