Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 16
A charity is an organisation that helps people, animals or the environment, paid for by money the public gives.
Who acts: charity, organisation, public · What happens: be, help, pay, give · To what, where: organisation, people, money
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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 (charity, organisation, public), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 charity | det |
| 2 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 organisation | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 organisation | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 organisation | det |
| 5 | organisation | organisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 helps | nsubj |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 organisation | acl:relcl |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 helps | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 animals | punct |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 people | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 environment | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 environment | det |
| 13 | environment | environment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 paid | punct |
| 15 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 helps | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 paid | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paid | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 public | det |
| 20 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gives | nsubj |
| 21 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 money | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 organisation | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a charity | a organisation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | a organisation | people and animals or the environment | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | pay | participle | a organisation not said here | by money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | present | the public | money not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:16.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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