When money is tight, sentence 0

Every family has spells when money is tight: after a big bill, when work hours are cut, or when prices rise faster than pay.

Who acts: family, money, prices · What happens: have, be, cut, rise · To what, where: spells, work hours

This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» 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 (family, money, prices), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tight	advmod
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tight	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tight	cop
8	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spells	acl:relcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 bill	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 bill	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bill	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bill	amod
13	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 cut	advmod
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hours	compound
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	nsubj:pass
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux:pass
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bill	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rise	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 rise	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 rise	advmod
23	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rise	nsubj
24	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	conj
25	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 rise	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 pay	case
27	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rise	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	every family	spells		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient
2	is	present	money		tight property	tree rules
3	cut	present · passive		work hours		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	rise	present	prices		than pay; fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «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:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:0.

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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