Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 18
Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gran's shift at the charity shop.
Who acts: Volunteering, Gran · What happens: mean, work, help, shift · To what, where: good cause, charity shop
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 (Volunteering, Gran), 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 | Volunteering | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 pay | case |
| 5 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 working | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 working | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cause | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cause | amod |
| 10 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shift | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 shift | case |
| 13 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shift | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Gran | case |
| 15 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 shop | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shop | det |
| 18 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shop | compound |
| 19 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shift | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Volunteering | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work not said to happen | gerund | Volunteering not said here | without pay | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | Volunteering not said here | a good cause | like Gran's shift at the charity shop | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | shift | Gran | the charity shop | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent at=place |
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:18.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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