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title: Prices rise over the years, which is called inflation, so a 10p bag… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: Prices rise over the years, which is called inflation, so a 10p bag of sweets now costs £1, but people's pay was lower back then too. Who acts: Prices, p bag, pay, people. A sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 8

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Prices rise over the years, which is called inflation, so a 10p bag of sweets now costs £1, but people's pay was lower back then too.

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**Who acts:** Prices, p bag, pay, people · **What happens:** rise, call, cost, be, pay · **To what, where:** years · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world 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 (Prices, p bag, pay, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:8
# text = Prices rise over the years, which is called inflation, so a 10p bag of sweets now costs £1, but people's pay was lower back then too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 126-in-the-olden-days.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
1	Prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	inflation	inflation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	obj	_	_
22	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **rise** | present | Prices |  |  |  | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | the years |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **cost** | present | a p bag of sweets |  |  |  | now |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 4 | **is** | past | people's pay |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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): 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.

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

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