Inflation explained with a chocolate bar, sentence 14

Hyperinflation is extremely fast price rises: if prices doubled every month, a £1 loaf would be £2, £4, £8 and then £16 after 4 months.

Who acts: Hyperinflation, prices · What happens: be, double · To what, where: price rises, £ 2

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 (Hyperinflation, prices), 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	Hyperinflation	hyperinflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rises	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rises	cop
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 price	amod
5	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rises	compound
6	rises	rise	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 prices	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 doubled	mark
9	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 doubled	nsubj
10	doubled	double	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rises	advcl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 month	det
12	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doubled	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loaf	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 loaf	det
15	£	£	SYM	_	17 loaf	compound
16	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rises	conj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 2	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 2	cop
20	£	£	SYM	_	21 2	compound
21	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 loaf	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 £	punct
23	£	£	SYM	_	6 rises	conj
24	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 £	nummod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 £	punct
26	£	£	SYM	_	27 8	compound
27	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 £	nummod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 £	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 £	advmod
30	£	£	SYM	_	23 £	conj
31	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 £	nummod
32	after	after	ADP	_	34 months	case
33	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 months	nummod
34	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 £	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rises	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Hyperinflation	price rises and a £ loaf		tree rules
2	double a condition, not said to happen	past	prices		month	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	would		£ 2		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, 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:14.

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 ×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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