Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 15
"Receiving public assistance" (official US) means living on welfare: money the government gives to people who need help.
Who acts: Receiving, government, people · What happens: receive, mean, live, give, need · To what, where: public assistance, welfare, money, people, help · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Receiving, government, people), 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 | _ | 2 Receiving | punct |
| 2 | Receiving | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 means | csubj |
| 3 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 assistance | amod |
| 4 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Receiving | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 assistance | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 US | punct |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 US | amod |
| 8 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 assistance | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 US | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 means | ccomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 welfare | case |
| 13 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 living | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 welfare | punct |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 welfare | appos |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 government | det |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gives | nsubj |
| 18 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 money | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gives | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 need | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 people | acl:relcl |
| 23 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive in a quote | gerund | public assistance | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Receiving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | welfare | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on welfare=Location | |||||
| 4 | give | present | the government | money not said here | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to people=Recipient | |||
| 5 | need | present | people | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:euphemisms:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:15.
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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