Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more, sentence 8

Inflation is when the prices of most things rise over time; the cost of living is how much money you need for food, heating, rent and other everyday things.

Who acts: Inflation, prices, cost, you · What happens: be, rise, need, cost · To what, where: much money, living

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 (Inflation, prices, cost, you), 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	Inflation	inflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 when	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 when	cop
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 rise	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prices	det
5	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rise	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prices	nmod
9	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 money	parataxis
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rise	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 rise	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cost	det
14	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 money	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 living	case
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cost	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 money	cop
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 money	amod
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 need	nsubj
22	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 money	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 food	case
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 need	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heating	punct
26	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 food	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rent	punct
28	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 food	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 things	cc
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
31	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 food	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 when	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Inflation			when property	tree rules
2	rise	present	the prices of most things		time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the cost of living	much money			tree rules
4	need	present	you	much money not said here		for food and heating and rent and other everyday things	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
5	cost			living			nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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