The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 0
In Middlesbrough the telly dies right in the middle of Lorcan's cartoons, and the lights go with it.
Who acts: telly, lights, Lorcan · What happens: die, go, cartoon
This is a sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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 (telly, lights, Lorcan), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Middlesbrough | case |
| 2 | Middlesbrough | Middlesbrough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dies | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 telly | det |
| 4 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dies | nsubj |
| 5 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 dies | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dies | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cartoons | case |
| 11 | Lorcan | Lorcan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cartoons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Lorcan | case |
| 13 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 middle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lights | det |
| 17 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | nsubj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dies | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | the telly | in the middle of Lorcan's cartoons; in Middlesbrough; right property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in middlesbrough=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go | present | the lights | with telly | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | cartoon | Lorcan | nom cartoon «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:0.
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): 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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