Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 21

«Are we skint again, Da?» «Aye, wee bit, it'll come back.» Islay in Perth, Australia, has had jam sandwiches every day since her dad got hurt at work; she tells a girl, «Yeah nah, it's sweet as» (Aussie for «no, it's fine»), but at home she asks for something different and Mum looks sad.

Who acts: we, money, Islay, Mum · What happens: be, come back, have, hurt, tell, ask · To what, where: jam sandwiches, dad, work, girl, fine », home · 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 (we, money, Islay, 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 skint	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skint	cop
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 skint	nsubj
4	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Aye	advcl
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 skint	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Da	punct
7	Da	Da	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 skint	vocative
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 skint	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 skint	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Aye	punct
11	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bit	punct
13	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bit	amod
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Aye	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Aye	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 Islay	punct
22	Islay	islay	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Perth	case
24	Perth	Perth	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Islay	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Australia	punct
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Perth	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 Aye	conj
30	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sandwiches	compound
31	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl:unmarked
34	since	since	SCONJ	_	38 hurt	mark
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 dad	nmod:poss
36	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hurt	nsubj:pass
37	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hurt	aux:pass
38	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 had	advcl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 work	case
40	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hurt	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 tells	punct
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 tells	nsubj
43	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Aye	advcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 girl	det
45	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tells	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sweet	punct
47	«	«	PUNCT	_	53 sweet	punct
48	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	49 nah	discourse
49	nah	nah	INTJ	_	53 sweet	discourse
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 nah	punct
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sweet	nsubj
52	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 sweet	cop
53	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tells	ccomp
54	as	as	ADV	_	53 sweet	advmod
55	»	»	PUNCT	_	53 sweet	punct
56	(	(	PUNCT	_	57 Aussie	punct
57	Aussie	Aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 sweet	parataxis
58	for	for	ADP	_	53 sweet	obl
59	«	«	PUNCT	_	65 »	punct
60	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	65 »	discourse
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 no	punct
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 »	nsubj
63	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 »	cop
64	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 »	amod
65	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sweet	parataxis
66	)	)	PUNCT	_	65 »	punct
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 asks	punct
68	but	but	CCONJ	_	72 asks	cc
69	at	at	ADP	_	70 home	case
70	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 asks	obl
71	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 asks	nsubj
72	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Aye	advcl
73	for	for	ADP	_	74 something	case
74	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	72 asks	obl
75	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 something	amod
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 looks	cc
77	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 looks	nsubj
78	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 asks	conj
79	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 looks	xcomp
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 skint	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we				again	Da vocative; skint property	tree rules
2	come back in a quote	future	money						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present · perfect	Islay in Perth and Australia	jam sandwiches			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Patient
4	hurt	past · passive		Islay's dad		work			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	present	Islay		a girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient
6	is in a quote	present	money					sweet property	tree rules
7	is a	present	money	fine »					tree rules
8	ask speech: ask	present	Islay			home		for something	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	look	present	Mum					sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

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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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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