Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 4
Higher interest rates calm prices but raise house payments; tariffs may protect some factory jobs but can raise prices in shops; a higher minimum wage helps workers but costs businesses more.
Who acts: Higher interest rates, tariffs, higher minimum wage · What happens: calm, protect, raise, help, cost · To what, where: prices, factory jobs, shops, workers, businesses
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 (Higher interest rates, tariffs, higher minimum wage), 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 | Higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 rates | amod |
| 2 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rates | compound |
| 3 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 calm | nsubj |
| 4 | calm | calm | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 calm | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 payments | cc |
| 7 | raise | raise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 payments | compound |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 payments | compound |
| 9 | payments | payment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prices | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 tariffs | punct |
| 11 | tariffs | tariff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 protect | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 protect | aux |
| 13 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 calm | conj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 jobs | det |
| 15 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jobs | compound |
| 16 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 protect | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 raise | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 raise | aux |
| 19 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 protect | conj |
| 20 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 raise | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 shops | case |
| 22 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 raise | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 helps | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wage | det |
| 25 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 wage | amod |
| 26 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wage | amod |
| 27 | wage | wage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 helps | nsubj |
| 28 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 calm | conj |
| 29 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 helps | obj |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 costs | cc |
| 31 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 helps | conj |
| 32 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 costs | obj |
| 33 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 costs | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | present | Higher interest rates | prices but raise house payments | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus price=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | protect | may | tariffs | some factory jobs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | raise | can | tariffs not said here | prices | shops | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent price=Theme in shop=Destination | |||
| 4 | help | present | a higher minimum wage | workers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | cost | present | a higher minimum wage not said here | businesses | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme business=Value |
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:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:4.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/4/