Money, work and the big choices, sentence 3
What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went.
Who acts: missing money · What happens: be, laugh, explain, go · To what, where: tax · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» 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 (missing money), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tax | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 tax | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tax | det |
| 5 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughs | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tax | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughs | punct |
| 8 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughs | nsubj |
| 9 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 explains | cc |
| 11 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughs | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 went | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 money | det |
| 14 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 money | amod |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 explains | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughs | 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 | all tax | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert in a quote | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past | the missing money | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:3.
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.
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