When money is tight, sentence 3
Some families use a food bank for a while, which is help, not shame.
Who acts: families, while · What happens: use, be · To what, where: food bank, help
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 (families, while), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 families | det |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bank | compound |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 while | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 while | det |
| 9 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 help | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | cop |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 while | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shame | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 shame | advmod |
| 16 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | some families | a food bank | while | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a while | help and shame | tree rules |
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:3.
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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