Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 17
"Careful with money" is a kind way to say stingy (hating to spend or share money).
Who acts: Careful · What happens: be, say, hate, spend, share · To what, where: kind way, stingy, money · 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 (Careful), 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 Careful | punct |
| 2 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Careful | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Careful | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 say | obj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 hating | punct |
| 14 | hating | hate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stingy | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spend | mark |
| 16 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hating | xcomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 share | cc |
| 18 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 spend | conj |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 share | obj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 hating | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Careful | a kind way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | stingy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stingy=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hate | gerund | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | spend not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | share | infinitive | money | 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:17.
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 ×1, 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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