Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 13

Central banks raise interest rates to cool spending and slow inflation, but loans cost more: a mortgage can go from £600 to £700 a month, £100 more.

Who acts: Central banks, loans, mortgage · What happens: raise, cool, slow, cost, go · To what, where: interest rates, spending, inflation, more

This is a sentence of the lesson «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» of the money 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 (Central banks, loans, mortgage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 banks	amod
2	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raise	nsubj
3	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rates	compound
5	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raise	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cool	mark
7	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 raise	advcl
8	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cool	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slow	cc
10	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cool	conj
11	inflation	inflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slow	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cost	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 cost	cc
14	loans	loan	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cost	nsubj
15	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raise	conj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 cost	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 cost	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mortgage	det
19	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cost	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 £	case
23	£	£	SYM	_	21 go	obl
24	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 £	nummod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 £	case
26	£	£	SYM	_	21 go	obl
27	700	700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 £	nummod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 month	det
29	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 £	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 £	punct
31	£	£	SYM	_	21 go	parataxis
32	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 £	nummod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 £	amod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	raise	present	Central banks	interest rates	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=Theme
2	cool	to-infinitive	Central banks not said here	spending	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spending=Patient
3	slow	infinitive	Central banks not said here	inflation	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent inflation=Patient
4	cost	present	loans	more	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
5	go	can	a mortgage		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from £=Initial_Location to £=Destination

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, 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:money:034-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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