Wasting food and water, sentence 10
But food, water, paper and electricity cost money and someone's work, and some of them, like water, are scarce in many places.
Who acts: food, some, someone · What happens: cost, be, work · To what, where: money, many places
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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 (food, some, someone), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 cost | cc |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 food | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 paper | punct |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 food | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 electricity | cc |
| 8 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 food | conj |
| 9 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cost | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 work | cc |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 money | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scarce | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 scarce | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 scarce | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 some | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 some | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 some | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 some | punct |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 scarce | cop |
| 25 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cost | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 places | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 places | amod |
| 28 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 scarce | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cost | 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 | cost | present | food and water and paper and electricity | money and someone's work | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value | ||||
| 2 | is | present | some | many places | scarce property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | work | someone | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.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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