The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 15
No more takeout.» («Fixin' to» means about to; «tighten belts» means spend less.) «Are we poor?» «We're careful.» Tyrone helps Grandma make cornbread and feels useful.
Who acts: Tyrone, means, we, Grandma · What happens: mean, tighten, spend, be, help, make · To what, where: belts, less, more takeout, cornbread
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 (Tyrone, means, we, Grandma), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 takeout | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 takeout | amod |
| 3 | takeout | takeout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 helps | parataxis |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takeout | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 takeout | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fixin | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fixin | punct |
| 8 | Fixin | Fixin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 takeout | appos |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fixin | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 means | case |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fixin | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 takeout | parataxis |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 means | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 about | fixed |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 tighten | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 tighten | punct |
| 17 | tighten | tighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 takeout | conj |
| 18 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tighten | obj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 spend | punct |
| 20 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 spend | nsubj |
| 21 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 belts | conj |
| 22 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 spend | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 less | punct |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 less | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 poor | punct |
| 26 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 poor | cop |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 poor | nsubj |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tighten | ccomp |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 takeout | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 takeout | punct |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 careful | punct |
| 32 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 careful | nsubj |
| 33 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 careful | cop |
| 34 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 takeout | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takeout | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 Tyrone | punct |
| 37 | Tyrone | Tyrone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 helps | nsubj |
| 38 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | nsubj |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 helps | xcomp |
| 41 | cornbread | cornbread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 feels | cc |
| 43 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 helps | conj |
| 44 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 feels | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- fragment
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tighten | infinitive | Tyrone not said here | belts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spend in a quote | present | means | less | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is | present | we | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | We | no more takeout not said here | careful property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | help in a quote | present | Tyrone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | Grandma | cornbread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornbread=Product | ||||
| 8 | feel in a quote | present | Tyrone not said here | useful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:15.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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