Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 28

Many schools have money to help families pay for trips, but a parent has to ask, so the letter should always go home.

Who acts: Many schools, families, parent, letter · What happens: have, help, pay, ask, go · To what, where: money, families

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, families, parent, letter), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 schools	amod
2	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 money	acl
7	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	obj
8	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 trips	case
10	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 parent	det
14	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ask	mark
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 has	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 letter	det
21	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 has	advcl
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	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	families		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	pay	infinitive	families not said here		for trips	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for trip=Theme
4	have	present	a parent			tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	a parent not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	should	the letter		always, home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:28.

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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