Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 14

Bogdan in Coventry doesn't give Mum the letter about the £35 theme park trip, because he knows she'll worry, and he says he's ill that day.

Who acts: Bogdan, mum · What happens: not give, know, worry, say, be · To what, where: letter, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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 (Bogdan, mum), 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	Bogdan	Bogdan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Coventry	case
3	Coventry	Coventry	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bogdan	nmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 letter	det
9	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	16 trip	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trip	det
12	£	£	SYM	_	16 trip	compound
13	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	theme	theme	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 park	compound
15	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trip	compound
16	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 letter	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knows	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 knows	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knows	nsubj
20	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	advcl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 worry	nsubj
22	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 worry	aux
23	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 knows	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 says	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 says	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 says	nsubj
27	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 knows	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ill	nsubj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 ill	cop
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 says	ccomp
31	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ill	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not give	present · do-support	Bogdan in Coventry	the letter	Mum		about the £ park trip	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient letter=Theme
2	know	present	Bogdan					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	worry	future	mum					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	Bogdan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	Bogdan			day	ill property	tree rules

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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:14.

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): R8-pos-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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