Where money comes from, sentence 10
Benefits are money the government pays to people who need help, such as those out of work, ill, caring for someone or on low pay; Universal Credit is the main one in the UK.
Who acts: Benefits, government, people, Universal Credit · What happens: be, pay, need, care · To what, where: money, help, main one, UK
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» 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 (Benefits, government, people, Universal Credit), 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 | Benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 money | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | cop |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 government | det |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pays | nsubj |
| 6 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pays | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 those | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 those | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 people | appos |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 those | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ill | punct |
| 20 | ill | ill | ADV | _ | 15 those | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 caring | punct |
| 22 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 those | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 someone | case |
| 24 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 caring | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 pay | cc |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 pay | case |
| 27 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pay | amod |
| 28 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 someone | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Credit | punct |
| 30 | Universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Credit | amod |
| 31 | Credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 one | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 one | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 34 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 one | amod |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 money | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 UK | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 UK | det |
| 38 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 one | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 money | 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 | Benefits | money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | the government | money not said here | to people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 3 | need | present | people | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 4 | care | gerund | for someone | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for someone=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | Universal Credit | the main one | the UK | tree rules |
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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:10.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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