Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 6
If you ask for more pocket money, you explain calmly why and accept the answer, because parents plan for the whole family.
Who acts: you, parents · What happens: ask, explain, accept, plan · To what, where: answer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday 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 (you, parents), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 ask | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 explain | advcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 money | amod |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 money | compound | ||
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 explain | nsubj |
| 10 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 10 explain | advmod |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 accept | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 accept | cc |
| 14 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 explain | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 answer | det |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accept | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plan | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 plan | mark |
| 19 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 plan | nsubj |
| 20 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 explain | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 family | amod |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plan | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | you | for more pocket money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | you | calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | accept | present | you not said here | the answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plan | present | parents | for the whole family | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:6.
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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