Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 10
"Negative cash flow" means spending more money than comes in.
Who acts: Negative cash flow · What happens: mean, spend, come in · To what, where: more money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» 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 (Negative cash flow), 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 flow | punct |
| 2 | Negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flow | amod |
| 3 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flow | compound |
| 4 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flow | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | spending | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 money | amod |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spending | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 comes | mark |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spending | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 comes | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | Negative cash flow | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spend | gerund | more money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||||
| 3 | come in | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:10.
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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