When money is tight, sentence 10

"We can't afford it" sometimes means there is no money for it, and sometimes that it is not worth the money compared with other things.

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

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 (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 means	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afford	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 afford	punct
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 means	advmod
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	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 means	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	_	23 worth	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 worth	cc
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 worth	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 worth	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 worth	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 worth	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 worth	advmod
23	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 is	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 money	det
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worth	obj
26	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 money	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 things	case
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 compared	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	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	family			tree rules
2	mean	present				sometimes property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	no money for family		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	present	money			sometimes, worth property	tree rules
5	compare	participle		the money not said here		with other things	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with thing=Co-Patient

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: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): R7-rel-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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