Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 11
"Cash flow problem" often means having no money to pay the bills.
Who acts: flow problem · What happens: mean, have, pay · To what, where: money, bills
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 (flow problem), 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 problem | punct |
| 2 | Cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flow | compound |
| 3 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 problem | compound |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 problem | punct |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 means | advmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 money | det |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 having | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 money | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bills | det |
| 14 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | flow problem | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | gerund | flow problem not said here | no money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | flow problem not said here | the bills | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset |
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:11.
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, 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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