--- title: When numbers are small, percentages jump: 2 burglaries becoming 3 is… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: When numbers are small, percentages jump: 2 burglaries becoming 3 is a rise of 50%, but it is only one more burglary. Who acts: numbers, percentages, 2 burglaries, becoming. A sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/) / 13 # "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 13 When numbers are small, percentages jump: 2 burglaries becoming 3 is a rise of 50%, but it is only one more burglary. **Who acts:** numbers, percentages, 2 burglaries, becoming, percentage · **What happens:** be, jump, become · **To what, where:** 3, rise, one more burglary This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» 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 (numbers, percentages, 2 burglaries, becoming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:13 # text = When numbers are small, percentages jump: 2 burglaries becoming 3 is a rise of 50%, but it is only one more burglary. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 percentages percentage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 burglaries burglary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 becoming become VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 12 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 26 burglary burglary NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | numbers | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **jump** | present | percentages | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | gerund | 2 burglaries | 3 | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient 3=Result | | 4 | **is a** | present | becoming | a rise | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | percentage | one more burglary | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/12/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)