When money is tight, sentence 5
Example: in a kitchen in Auckland, Mum spreads the bills on the table and says "Let's sit down and do a budget." The children help write a list: rent, power, food, bus fares, and what is left.
Who acts: Mum, 's, children · What happens: spread, say, let, sit down, do, help · To what, where: bills, kitchen, 's, budget, list, rent · 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 (Mum, 's, children), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | dislocated |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 spreads | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 kitchen | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kitchen | det |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Auckland | case |
| 7 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kitchen | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kitchen | punct |
| 9 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | nsubj |
| 10 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bills | det |
| 12 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spreads | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 says | cc |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spreads | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 19 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 says | ccomp |
| 20 | 's | us | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 Let | obj |
| 21 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Let | xcomp |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sit | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sit | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 budget | det |
| 26 | budget | budget | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spreads | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 help | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 children | det |
| 30 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 help | nsubj |
| 31 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spreads | conj |
| 32 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 help | xcomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 list | det |
| 34 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 write | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 rent | punct |
| 36 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 list | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 power | punct |
| 38 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rent | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 food | punct |
| 40 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 power | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fares | punct |
| 42 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fares | compound |
| 43 | fares | fare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 power | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 left | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 left | cc |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 48 left | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 left | aux:pass |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 rent | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Mum | the bills | a kitchen in Auckland | on the table; Example dislocated | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme in kitchen=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Mum not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sit down in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | a budget | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | help | present | the children | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | write | infinitive | the children not said here | a list | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leave | present · passive | rent and power and food and bus fares | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:5.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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