Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 5
When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time.
Who acts: people · What happens: want, help, give, sponsor, volunteer · To what, where: money, charities
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 (people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 want | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 help | mark |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 charities | case |
| 11 | charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sponsored | punct |
| 13 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sponsored | aux:pass |
| 14 | sponsored | sponsor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 give | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 challenge | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 challenge | det |
| 17 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sponsored | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 volunteer | cc |
| 19 | volunteer | volunteer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sponsored | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 volunteer | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | present | people | money | charities | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to charity=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sponsor | infinitive · passive | people not said here | for a challenge | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: for challenge=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | volunteer | infinitive | people not said here | time | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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