The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 14
In Atlanta, Tyrone's mom says, «We fixin' to tighten belts.
Who acts: mom, We · What happens: say, fixin, tighten · To what, where: Atlanta, belts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mom, We), 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 Atlanta | case |
| 2 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Atlanta | punct |
| 4 | Tyrone | Tyrone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Tyrone | case |
| 6 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fixin | nsubj |
| 11 | fixin | fixin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixin | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tighten | mark |
| 14 | tighten | tighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fixin | advcl |
| 15 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tighten | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Tyrone's mom | Atlanta | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fixin in a quote | present | We | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tighten in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | belts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belt=Patient |
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:14.
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. 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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