Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 23

"On a fixed income" (US) means having little money, usually as a pensioner, an old person living on a pension (money paid after you stop work).

Who acts: old person, you · What happens: mean, have, live, pay, stop · To what, where: fixed income, little money, pension, money, work · 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 (old person, you), 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	_	10 means	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	5 income	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 income	det
4	fixed	fix	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 income	amod
5	income	income	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 income	punct
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 US	punct
8	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 income	appos
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 US	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 means	ccomp
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 money	amod
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pensioner	punct
15	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 pensioner	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 pensioner	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pensioner	det
18	pensioner	pensioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 having	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 person	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 person	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 person	amod
22	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pensioner	appos
23	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 person	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 pension	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pension	det
26	pension	pension	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 living	obl
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 money	punct
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pension	appos
29	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 money	acl
30	after	after	SCONJ	_	32 stop	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 stop	nsubj
32	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 paid	advcl
33	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stop	obj
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present			a fixed income		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	gerund		little money		as a pensioner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	live	gerund	a old person not said here		a pension		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pension=Location
4	pay	participle		money not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	stop	present	you	work			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality

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:23.

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 ×2. 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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