Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 17
He could say, «Can't afford it this week.
Who acts: Bogdan · What happens: say, not afford · To what, where: letter · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 afford | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 6 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 afford | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 afford | advmod |
| 8 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 afford | obj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 afford | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | could | Bogdan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not afford in a quote | can | letter | week | 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:17.
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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