Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 20

«We can't afford it» can mean there is no money for it, or that the money is needed for something that matters more.

Who acts: We, money · What happens: not afford, mean, be, need, matter · To what, where: film, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 (We, 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 afford	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 afford	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 afford	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 afford	advmod
5	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 mean	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afford	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 afford	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	ccomp
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	nsubj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 money	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 needed	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 needed	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 needed	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 money	det
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needed	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 needed	aux:pass
22	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 is	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 something	case
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 needed	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 matters	nsubj
26	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 something	acl:relcl
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 matters	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not afford in a quote	can	We	film			tree rules
2	mean	can					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	no money for film		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	present · passive		the money		for something	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
5	matter	present					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:20.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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