Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 11
"A little short" means without enough money to pay.
Who acts: short · What happens: mean, pay
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty» of the euphemisms 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 (short), 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 short | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 short | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADV | _ | 4 short | advmod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 money | amod |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 money | acl |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | a short | without enough money | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | a short not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:euphemisms:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:11.
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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