Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 14
"Food insecure" (official) means hungry and not able to afford enough food.
Who acts: Food · What happens: mean, afford · To what, where: hungry, enough food
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 (Food), 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 | _ | 3 insecure | punct |
| 2 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | insecure | insecure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Food | amod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 insecure | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 official | punct |
| 6 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Food | parataxis |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 official | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 able | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 able | advmod |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hungry | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 afford | mark |
| 14 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 food | amod |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afford | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Food | hungry | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hungry=Topic | ||||
| 2 | afford | to-infinitive | Food not said here | enough food | 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:euphemisms:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:14.
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): R6-punct-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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