When money is tight, sentence 4
Hard times are also when scammers strike, with messages that look urgent and real.
Who acts: Hard times, scammers, messages · What happens: be, strike, look
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 (Hard times, scammers, messages), 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 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 when | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 when | cop |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 when | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | scammers | scammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strike | nsubj |
| 7 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 when | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 when | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 messages | case |
| 10 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strike | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 look | nsubj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 messages | acl:relcl |
| 13 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 look | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 real | cc |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 urgent | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 when | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hard times | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | present | scammers | with messages | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with message=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present | messages | urgent property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:4.
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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