When money is tight, sentence 9
"Money's tight" means little is left after the bills for extras; it does not mean the family is in danger.
Who acts: Money, it, family · What happens: be, mean, leave, not mean · To what, where: little, danger · 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 (Money, it, family), 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 | _ | 4 tight | punct |
| 2 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tight | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tight | cop |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | csubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tight | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 bills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bills | det |
| 12 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 extras | case |
| 14 | extras | extra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bills | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mean | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mean | advmod |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 family | det |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 danger | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 danger | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mean | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | 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 | is in a quote | present | Money | tight property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | little | after the bills for extras | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not mean | present · do-support | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the family | danger | 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:9.
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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