Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 19
The collection plate gathers money given to the church, often for people who need help and for running the church.
Who acts: collection plate, people · What happens: gather, give, need, run · To what, where: money, church, help
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (collection plate, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plate | det |
| 2 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plate | compound |
| 3 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathers | nsubj |
| 4 | gathers | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathers | obj |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 money | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 church | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 often | punct |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 need | nsubj |
| 15 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 need | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 running | cc |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 running | mark |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 need | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 church | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 running | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present | the collection plate | money | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | money not said here | the church | for people; often property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to church=Recipient for people=Asset | |||
| 3 | need | present | people | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | people not said here | the church | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Trajectory |
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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:19.
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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