Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 23
And when Amara brings shop biscuits to the cake sale because Mum had no time or eggs, they help just as much as homemade cupcakes.
Who acts: Amara, Mum, biscuits · What happens: bring, have, help · To what, where: shop biscuits, cake sale, much
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 (Amara, Mum, biscuits), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 brings | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 brings | advmod |
| 3 | Amara | Amara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brings | nsubj |
| 4 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | advcl |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 biscuits | compound |
| 6 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brings | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sale | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sale | det |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sale | compound |
| 10 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brings | obl |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brings | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 eggs | cc |
| 17 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 time | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 help | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 cupcakes | case |
| 25 | homemade | homemade | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cupcakes | amod |
| 26 | cupcakes | cupcake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 much | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Amara | shop biscuits | the cake sale | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme to sale=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | past | Mum | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | help | present | biscuits = biscuit | much | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Beneficiary |
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:23.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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