Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 15

But many schools have money to help with trips, and only a parent can ask, so by hiding the letter Bogdan decided for Mum.

Who acts: many schools, parent, Bogdan · What happens: have, help, ask, hide, decide · To what, where: money, letter

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 (many schools, parent, Bogdan), 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	_	4 have	cc
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 schools	amod
3	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 money	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 trips	case
9	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ask	cc
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 parent	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 parent	det
14	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ask	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ask	aux
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hiding	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 hiding	advmod
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 hiding	mark
20	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 ask	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 letter	det
22	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hiding	obj
23	Bogdan	Bogdan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 decided	nsubj
24	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 letter	acl:relcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 Mum	case
26	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 decided	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	many schools	money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	many schools not said here	money not said here	with trips	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trip=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	can	a parent			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hide	gerund	a parent not said here	the letter		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
5	decide	past	Bogdan	the letter not said here	for Mum	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent letter=Topic

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:15.

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, 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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