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title: Some say governments spent and printed too much money; others say wo… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics
description: Some say governments spent and printed too much money; others say world problems like the pandemic and war pushed up fuel and food costs. Who acts: Some, governments, others, world problems. A sentence of the lesson «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics course of Mova's
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# Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 9

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Some say governments spent and printed too much money; others say world problems like the pandemic and war pushed up fuel and food costs.

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**Who acts:** Some, governments, others, world problems · **What happens:** say, spend, print, push up · **To what, where:** much money, fuel · **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 (Some, governments, others, world problems), 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:9
# text = Some say governments spent and printed too much money; others say world problems like the pandemic and war pushed up fuel and food costs.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
3	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	printed	print	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **spend** | past | governments |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **print** | past | governments *not said here* | much money |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **push up** | past | world problems like the pandemic and war | fuel and food costs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |

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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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**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:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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