Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 16

A smart meter shows how much energy the house is using right now and what it costs, so families can see which things use the most.

Who acts: smart meter, house, families, things · What happens: show, use, cost, see · To what, where: much energy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (smart meter, house, families, things), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meter	det
2	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meter	amod
3	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 energy	amod
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 using	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 using	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 using	aux
11	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shows	ccomp
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 now	advmod
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 using	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 costs	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 costs	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 costs	nsubj
17	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 using	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
20	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shows	advcl
23	which	which	DET	PronType=Rel	24 things	det
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 use	nsubj
25	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 most	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 use	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	show	present	a smart meter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	present · progressive	the house	much energy	now	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
3	cost	present	house			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value
4	see	can	families			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	use	present	which things			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:16.

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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