Where money comes from, sentence 12
Child benefit is a small regular payment from the government to families with children, to help with things like shoes and food.
Who acts: Child benefit · What happens: be, help · To what, where: small regular payment, government
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 (Child benefit), 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 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 benefit | compound |
| 2 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 payment | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 payment | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 payment | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 payment | amod |
| 6 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 payment | amod |
| 7 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 government | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 government | det |
| 10 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 payment | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 families | case |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 payment | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 families | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 payment | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 help | obl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 shoes | case |
| 21 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 things | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 food | cc |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shoes | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 payment | 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 | Child benefit | a small regular payment | the government | to families with children | tree rules | ||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | with things like shoes and food | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thing=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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:12.
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): R5-strong ×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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