Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 35

Words in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) means nice or good, «whit» (Scotland) means what, «pure dead brilliant» (Glasgow) means really brilliant, «togs» (NZ, Australia) are a swimming costume, «can't swing it» means can't afford it, «sus» means suspicious or dodgy, «skint» means out of money, «wee» means small, «yeah nah» means no, «sweet as» means fine.

Who acts: East England, whit », Glasgow, togs, sus, wee · What happens: mean, be, not swing, not afford · To what, where: canny », dead brilliant », swimming costume, », money · 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 (East England, whit », Glasgow, togs), 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	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 lesson	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Words	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 »	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 canny	punct
7	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 »	amod
8	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Words	conj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 England	punct
10	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 East	compound
11	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 England	compound
12	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 means	nsubj
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 England	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 »	acl:relcl
15	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 means	xcomp
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 good	cc
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nice	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nice	punct
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 whit	punct
20	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 »	compound
21	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 Scotland	punct
23	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 Scotland	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 means	ccomp
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 means	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 »	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 »	punct
29	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 brilliant	amod
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 »	amod
31	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 »	amod
32	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 what	nsubj
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 Glasgow	punct
34	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 means	nsubj
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 Glasgow	punct
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 »	acl:relcl
37	really	really	ADV	_	38 brilliant	advmod
38	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 means	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 brilliant	punct
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 togs	punct
41	togs	tog	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 costume	nsubj
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	44 NZ	punct
43	(	(	PUNCT	_	44 NZ	punct
44	NZ	NZ	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 togs	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Australia	punct
46	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 NZ	conj
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	44 NZ	punct
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 costume	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 costume	det
50	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 costume	compound
51	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	ccomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 swing	punct
53	«	«	PUNCT	_	56 swing	punct
54	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 swing	aux
55	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 swing	advmod
56	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 costume	conj
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 swing	obj
58	»	»	PUNCT	_	56 swing	punct
59	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 swing	ccomp
60	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 afford	aux
61	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 afford	advmod
62	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 means	advcl
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 afford	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 sus	punct
65	«	«	PUNCT	_	66 sus	punct
66	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 means	nsubj
67	»	»	PUNCT	_	66 sus	punct
68	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 means	parataxis
69	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 means	xcomp
70	or	or	CCONJ	_	71 dodgy	cc
71	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 suspicious	conj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 skint	punct
73	«	«	PUNCT	_	74 skint	punct
74	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 suspicious	conj
75	»	»	PUNCT	_	74 skint	punct
76	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	74 skint	ccomp
77	out	out	ADP	_	79 money	case
78	of	of	ADP	_	79 money	case
79	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 means	obl
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 wee	punct
81	«	«	PUNCT	_	82 wee	punct
82	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 means	nsubj
83	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	84 means	nsubj
84	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 means	ccomp
85	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 means	xcomp
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	91 means	punct
87	«	«	PUNCT	_	91 means	punct
88	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	89 nah	discourse
89	nah	nah	INTJ	_	91 means	discourse
90	»	»	PUNCT	_	89 nah	punct
91	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 means	conj
92	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	91 means	discourse
93	,	,	PUNCT	_	95 sweet	punct
94	«	«	PUNCT	_	95 sweet	punct
95	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Words	parataxis
96	as	as	SCONJ	_	98 means	mark
97	»	»	PUNCT	_	98 means	punct
98	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	95 sweet	advcl
99	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	98 means	xcomp
100	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Words	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	East England	canny » not said here		nice property	tree rules
2	mean	present	whit »				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	mean	present	Glasgow	dead brilliant » not said here		brilliant property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Topic
4	is a	present	togs NZ and Australia	a swimming costume			tree rules
5	not swing in a quote	can	togs NZ and Australia not said here	»			tree rules
6	mean	present	togs NZ and Australia not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	not afford	can	togs NZ and Australia not said here	»			tree rules
8	mean	present	sus			suspicious property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	mean	present			money		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
10	mean	present	wee			small property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
11	mean	present	whit » not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
12	mean	present				fine property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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