When work goes wrong, sentence 9
While a parent is unemployed the family may claim benefits and cut spending; free fun like parks and libraries helps.
Who acts: parent, family, free fun · What happens: be, claim, cut, help · To what, where: benefits, spending
This is a sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» 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 (parent, family, free fun), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 unemployed | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unemployed | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unemployed | cop |
| 5 | unemployed | unemployed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 claim | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claim | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 claim | aux |
| 9 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 helps | parataxis |
| 10 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 claim | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 claim | conj |
| 13 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 unemployed | punct |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fun | amod |
| 16 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 helps | nsubj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 parks | case |
| 18 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fun | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 libraries | cc |
| 20 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 parks | conj |
| 21 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a parent | unemployed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | may | the family | benefits | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent benefit=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | the family not said here | spending | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spending=Product | ||||
| 4 | help | present | free fun like parks and libraries | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:9.
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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